Thank you to our TSA Officers out there who I think day in and day out under very difficult circumstances protect the traveling public from threats.

Thank you for your leadership in holding this hearing. To Maxine Waters, thanks for hosting us in your fine district.

It is critical that the agencies responsible for protecting our airports are doing all that they can to keep passengers and employees safe.

I think that is a very worrisome step for the agency to take.

Budgets are about choices. The choice here is between fully funding the request to bring space launches back to American soil or continuing to send money, millions, to the Russians.

I have to confess that I am a bit weary of the annual cycle of the Administration proposing reductions in the funding for the Space Launch System and the Orion exploration vehicles.

I want to know more about the proposed increases to NASA's Commercial Crew program.

I urge you to do so, as I would find it difficult to support the funding you are requesting for commercial crew in the absence of such safeguards.

STEM education is a priority of course of many of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle.

NASA needs to remember its priorities--and that priority is space exploration.

I can't overstate the importance of accurate climate and weather forecasting to my constituencies from agriculture, the fishing community.

I am troubled by the cuts being proposed to NASA's education activities.