Ben Nelson: “There have been a lot of penetrations of U.S. Government and industrial computer systems with data theft that have been…”

We spend an awful lot of time talking about what programs we would like to have. Probably not nearly enough time on accountability.

Let me add my thoughts. We ask you to reduce budgets, to watch the growth, and then when you come before us after you've done it, then we question why you've done it and whether you've done it right or not.

We must preserve our core fundamental space capabilities in this tight budget environment.

We're at a crisis. We're running out of money and we need to do this as a core function of government.