NASA's unparalleled experience and expertise in developing new observational technologies and launching satellites makes it a crucial part of the Earth Science enterprise.

Well, if the implication is we are going to push it off on the states, states have a State climatologist who generally has a very limited budget.

Although unfortunate it was not unexpected from an administration that denies climate change and denies that human activity has an effect on as the primary cause of climate change.

To achieve this 9 percent reduction, which is hugely out of line with the cuts and the other part of the budget for NASA, to achieve this, funding for five Earth-observing missions is completely eliminated.

Have you analyzed the potential threat to DOD's manufacturing and readiness needs if you eliminated the program that allows DOD suppliers to be more productive, efficient, and innovative?

We are concerned on this side of the aisle about our ability to get our questions answered under the current administration.

I believe if anything we need to expand the work of the EDA to help the communities that need it most.

I believe would unnecessarily and detrimentally inject politics into questions of what science projects should be funded.

You can't leave the work to the scientists, but not give them the resources they need to do that work.

Is it the administration's belief that we don't need to know where carbon emissions are coming from?

I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the ranking member except for the part about baseball.

Now, these have been around for more than 30 years, helping local communities on the ground work with National Centers for Environmental Information's data records and apply them to solving many real-world problems posed by climate change.