Steven Palazzo

While I do not always agree with the Administration's decisions, I appreciate the good people at NASA and their service to the country.

I would be surprised if we are paying 90 percent of the cost of Commercial Crew development to this date.

We are skirting our responsibilities.

The American taxpayer deserves this. Congress deserves an answer as well.

What kind of message does this send to the international community?

What do you think will happen if we do not turn off sequester in 2016?

I have been asking for cost justifications for these movements for over 2 years now and I am yet to see an answer that shows me any cost savings.

I think the majority of this committee would agree with you and many Members in Congress.

I want to know exactly how much it is going to cost in actual dollars, fuel, MILCON, other relocation costs, manpower downtime, for these planes to move to Little Rock Air Force Base from Keesler Air Force Base.

I am sorry, but I am not going to let the Air Force get away with moving families, disrupting communities, and moving our airmen around whenever they feel like it without justification.

I think that whoever did the math in this instance is flat wrong.

It seems like the Air Force is hellbent on moving these aircraft out of South Mississippi.

I am going to fight to kill this one just as I fought to kill the other two.

We have a bipartisan and bicameral support of Congress in the last NDAA. Congress wants CHAMP.

I have serious questions about the speed at which the drawdown of the A-10 is going to occur prior to another weapon system being put in place.

So the Marines clearly want and need a 12th LPD [landing platform/dock] and the LPD maintains the critical industrial base hot for rolling right into procuring the next amphibious ships based on the LPD hull form.

The world is not getting safer but is becoming more dangerous and that we need more ships, not less ships.

That same individual told me that they knew that the Department of Defense was going to continue to take painful cuts from the military until BRAC was viewed as the lesser of two evils, would you agree with that statement?

It has often been said that space exploration is a 'go as we can afford to pay' endeavor.

We have, I think, an opportunity to serve our long-term national security and geopolitical interests with a program of space exploration.

Getting them involved in cooperation, getting them involved in caring about having a peaceful and stable space environment is something that I think is deeply in our national security and foreign policy interest.

We as a country are more dependent upon a peaceful, quiet and stable space environment than any other nation in the world.

Civil space cooperation is not something done just for fun or even just only for inspiration, as important as that is.

I believe we are on the right track but we must remain budget-focused and mission-vigilant.

We must ensure that future exploration endeavors lay the groundwork for an eventual human landing on Mars.