John Culberson: “I know the gentleman has seen partnerships in California, as we have in Texas, between NASA and our universities. The…”

“I know the gentleman has seen partnerships in California, as we have in Texas, between NASA and our universities. The research that is done between NASA and our universities has yielded tangible benefits in medical technology and in so many different ways. We are going to be on this floor talking about those benefits which have touched the lives of individual Americans, particularly in the area of medicine, which the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon) who has just joined us, is so familiar with. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Weldon) to join us in this colloquy to lay out the benefits individually and collectively as a Nation that have come to us from the exploration of space and the work that NASA is doing.”