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

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.

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.

The idea of the budget being submitted directly to Congress is important because if--we don't all of us--none of us know exactly what NASA's best minds have recommended.

One of the most gratifying things we get to do, is to help you seek out new life and discover these incredible new worlds.

I put statutory language in last year's bill and this one that says literally no agency can change any program, policy, you cannot change funding levels for any program or policy based on the President's budget.

the goal of this mission is to achieve the scientific objectives of the Decadal Survey, which as you have just confirmed for the record has to include a lander if we are going to answer that essential and most exciting question of all, is…

this $2 billion increase in mandatory spending that you are assuming in your request is simply not going to happen

it is illegal for NASA not to fly, is the Europa mission, because it is so important that we find out whether or not we are alone in the universe