Now I have heard you say that, well, it takes longer to complete the human safety ratings for the vehicles, and we need to have catch-up time.

I was, frankly, floored, as you know from our conversation, that it would be so blatant to take it right out of Orion and SLS and put it into Commercial Crew.

we agree that we need to get the Commercial Crew up so that we are not dependent on the Russians.

Despite the very real fiscal challenges we face, the United States is still capable of supporting a space program that is, as the Augustine Report suggested, 'worthy of a great nation.'

The President's request is about $2 billion under the amount this committee authorized for the agency, leaving us with some tough choices on how to preserve the balanced approach for NASA.

I do support additional funding and the goal of a Commercial Crew vehicle because I think that is an important first step.

I do think that the guard is the immediate call, that is, all of the training with the Governors is guard, and they have been very successful, and immediate.

It's hard for me to see an efficiency argument here, when if it ain't broke, don't fix it sort of attitude.

we are here to try to keep that momentum going in the right direction.

We have agreed to develop the heavy launch vehicle to carry the Orion crew exploration vehicle to destinations beyond low-Earth orbit.

I am concerned about the funding levels for the vehicle development portion of the Space Launch System and the Orion crew vehicle.

we are not giving up on space flight. It is very important to move forward.