Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to further strengthen the rule regarding congressional earmarks.

I think that we should let NSF pick the most promising areas and give the agency the flexibility to pursue them.

I hope, as a result of the time that I have got, if I have the privilege to stay here as the chairman for that time period, we will have laid the foundation not only to discover life in that other world, but to have identified those…

What a privilege it has been for us to work with you, to help make sure the American space program is the best in the world, has been, always will be.

I wholeheartedly agree with the premise that we want to preserve America's leadership in space, and that NASA will need stability if it is to maintain that leadership role.

the applicability of the NSF model to NASA is unclear.

we should let the dedicated men and women at NASA who are tasked with carrying out NASA's challenging programs be the ones to develop its budget requests.

Our colleague Bill Posey often says that the Chinese are going to the moon, and they're not going there just to collect rocks, and I couldn't agree more.

Space exploration is a very worthwhile investment for the taxpayer and for the Nation.

Make it better, and help us find a way to give NASA the stability that they need at headquarters, again, to make those dreams of the future come true.

We set an outside date, 2033. That's a responsibility of us on the political side whether it's the Administration or Congresses, which change every 2 years.