Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We are doing a lot of work through the administration on creating new materials and composite materials.

I support his interest and concern about what we are going to do relative to planetary science and Mars.

Maybe we can get a stronger allocation for NASA.

There is a need for a government stimulus in this regard and support.

We look forward to your testimony.

I think we should be rewarding employees as much as we need them, because we cannot afford to lose them.

I want to commend you for that.

This is a serious issue. And as a scientist, you will appreciate that on the one hand scientists want to have broad interactions around inventions and new ideas and new approaches in the scientific community.

I am all for returning to the time in which Congress would exert some authority in these matters.

I think by working with the Corps over the years a lot has been done.