"If there's anything that we have learned from this experience, it is that our national space program can ill-afford to change our program of record every time that there is a new President."
"I think that is criminal that we spend three percent of our budget on aeronautics."
"We cannot blame anybody else but us. We must not let the nation down. We must not let our young people down."
"It rests with this Committee and Congress, not the White House, on what is authorized and what is appropriated in this Congress."
"We need to get the politics out of these important programs for our nation's sake."
"the American people will suffer the consequences of this plan is what it looks like to me."
"I hope this hearing can be used to identify and determine the necessary first steps in that process."
"It is time for NASA to initiate constructive dialogue with the private sector to assess the viability of public-private partnerships for the provision of space-based Earth observation data to meet NAS..."
"This sounds good, but it is actually a journey to nowhere until we have that budget and we have the schedule and we have the deadlines."
"If we are going to ask NASA and its contractors to carry out the extremely challenging job of getting America to Mars, this Congress is going to have do its job too."
"My hope is that folks across the Administration will reverse course and begin to support the SLS and Orion programs, and the workforce that makes them possible, with the funding necessary to continue ..."