Eddie Bernice Johnson

I am worried about being penny wise and pound foolish.

This is a good budget for research, innovation, and education under our circumstances.

What we need is consensus from the start. In the most powerful democracy in the world, it is the only way this will work.

we have got to go forward. It is clear that we need to establish some repositories.

it appears that whatever happened with Yucca Mountain, the capacity is just about filled.

After five decades of commercial nuclear power in the United States, we still have not arrived at a comprehensive and equitable plan for permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel.

It was always controversial and unfair, and in the end, we are left frustrated and angry with an ever-growing waste stockpile and still without a solution.

Given the diversity of backgrounds and expertise on the Commission, arriving at a consensus on something as potentially contentious as our nuclear future is not easy.

I look forward to hearing from each of you today.

I am just as concerned about overruns as everyone else, but I wanted to share that some years ago when I was having to wear glasses for nearsightedness...

I believe that this Committee is going to need regular updates on this project from NASA so that we can have confidence that its milestones are being met.

It is very important that NASA ensure that this project proceeds without further turmoil.

I look forward to hearing about the re-plan from our witnesses as well as about any challenges and risks that still exist.

I look forward to hearing more about NASA's offset proposal in today's hearing.

And I would just like to add that the 5 percent cut combined with uncertainty about the potential additional cuts...

As he has noted, we had to absorb the 5 percent cut in our budget this year, as did other committees.

it seems to me that we are running on a course of eventually the taxpayer subsidizing a monopoly

I cannot let my enthusiasm for entrepreneurial innovation override my responsibility as a Member of Congress to take a clearheaded look at the issues associated with NASA's commercial crew proposal.

I think it is very important that commercial crew exists as part of an enabling system to provide low-cost transportation to ISS, affordable transportation, in such a manner that there is funding left over in NASA's budget so that we can…

I have got to be convinced that the benefits of NASA's commercial crew proposal outweigh the costs before I can be comfortable in supporting it.

The primary justification to invest in the commercial crew initiative is that the nation needs this strategic capability to maintain our nation's leadership in human spaceflight.

I've got to be convinced that the benefits of NASA's commercial crew proposal outweigh the costs before I can be comfortable supporting it.

I have to take the Deputy Administrator at her word, as NASA still has not provided Congress with the basis for its commercial crew budget requests since the initiative was first announced almost two years ago.

I am greatly disappointed to see that the current majority of this subcommittee seems to have already reached a conclusion on this topic by entitling the hearing, 'National Infrastructure Bank: More Bureaucracy and More Red Tape.'

The creation of the national infrastructure development bank to leverage private and public capital to finance nationally and regionally significant infrastructure projects is a proposal that I have been highly supportive of for many years.