Gary Peters

Hopefully we can revisit some of those matching programs to make sure that those communities that may be at the highest risk...

I think it's as fundamental an issue as we have in our country.

I think you need to have the same kind of contracting demonstration project that is put in place.

I would say, though, that the Air Force has done a pretty good job in terms of supporting the lab.

I was unable to attend yesterday's vote on the nomination of R. Alexander Acosta to be Secretary of Labor. Had I been able to attend, I would have opposed the nomination. ____________________

I think that the principles that we would think about are reciprocity--are American companies able to sell into that market?

We cannot let bureaucracy stifle our space ambitions.

It's global, but there are also a small number of players and it seems like because there are a small number of players that you're also more susceptible to potential anti-competitive behavior by other countries and their programs.

I think it would be devastating to the Station, in my understanding, was initially created as a mechanism to do two or three or four different kinds of things.

We have to think about this in a coordinated way. Would you agree?

I am also concerned about, in the President's budget, significant cuts to NOAA and what that would mean for weather satellites.

It is very important to have collaboration between the Department of Defense and NOAA.

I want to draw attention to the issue in the duplication report about the challenges that we face in maintaining some of our satellite weather monitoring capabilities.

I think there is a great opportunity for us to come together to make sure that what we have seen in performance continues.

I would like to join in your efforts to get greater compliance with these GAO recommendations as well.

I am encouraged to hear that the $75 billion figure that we have been given is soon to grow quite rapidly.

It seems to me, between us and China, that this is a new paradigm when it comes to international relations.

To me, the title speaks for itself as 'essential.' This is the Essential Air Service for our rural areas.

I was floored to have the Trump administration basically zeroing out this money.

Your opposition to the border tax, if that is taken out, the math does not work real well for the tax plan.

The problem with that is that not everybody can work longer.

The triple-A credit of the United States is the bedrock of the global financial system.

The complacency works, I think, two ways.

This is all games that they play, and they go back and forth, and it is just another example of the dysfunction that exists in the U.S. Congress.

I agree. I do not think we are likely to eliminate the debt limit.