I rise today to talk with this body about the NASA Administrator. Later today, we are going to have a vote that is extremely important for the future of NASA and the future of space exploration, what we are going to do with our satellites…

I need to tell you that you need to lead with that.

But just making sure it gets off the critical list would be essential to us because there are so many critical items all the way down.

It is good to see you again.

The experience you bring here... is very valuable.

This is not one designed to hurt you.

We just need to make sure all the locks and everything work first.

Yes, it is critical.

I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman.

Can I recommend to the committee that we have a closed door meeting with the Corps of Engineers and with OMB together?

We are trying to be able to work through helping the Corps by figuring out the inventory of what you have, where are the priorities.

This may be an ongoing conversation with Small Business Administration and others that just want to be able to have people at the table.

OK. Talk to me about the speed of that. How quickly can they get an answer back?

Talk to me about the Congressional Review Act and the engagement with Treasury and IRS on the CRA.

let me do a quick history lesson with this body. In 1773, the Colonies we were getting more and more frustrated with King George. There were a lot of issues we raised with him--a lot of taxes, a lot of changes, things that were happening…

We appreciate you being here and doing the hard work. You all have done a lot of work behind the scenes to be able to get to this point, to be able to do this, and we do appreciate it.

The issue about an interpretive rule and whether something is economically significant...

I get that. No, I am not going to hold you to it, as we are going through some of the possibilities for review.

You need to slow down. We need better information.

That is extremely helpful to get the context on this.

Well, let us ask OIRA, shall we? What is a good expectation for a time period, because clearly, as we have discussed before, and Senator Portman brought up, there is no goal here of trying to slow down the process with IRS, because many…

Which, by the way, I do not think you are getting any disagreement from us on that.

This will have a court challenge and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars.

OK. Additional elements that need to be addressed in this memorandum of agreement that are unaddressed.

Hopefully the last one, because that was cleaning up the mess from the first one, but that is a whole different issue.