José E. Serrano: “We are responsible as stewards of our constituents' very hard-earned and very scarce tax dollars.”

An additional $25 billion cost would severely impact vital programs, not only under this subcommittee, but across all non-defense subcommittees.

An increase in funding of the scale I recommend might impinge on other priorities.

Very interesting. Well, then that throws out like half of my questions here.

This committee, both under Republican and Democratic leadership, has always been very friendly to NASA.