Ralph Hall

Fulfilling the promise of the ISS would not only serve humanity, it would also strengthen America's leadership in science, technology, and education.

I can't stress enough the importance of accelerating this launch system to ensure we have an alternative method to transport people and cargo to the International Space Station as well as to launch future missions beyond low Earth orbit.

There is no doubt in my mind that NASA's decision to withdraw from ExoMars seriously imperils the ability of ESA to keep moving forward with this program.

I don't understand how we can be assured that NASA is developing safe systems, and safety is so important if it is prohibited from imposing any requirements or performance tests from the companies?

What is this going to do to our ability to be reliable partners, and partnership is so important for success as we have a shrinking budget.

I trust you will take these concerns in the sober spirit in which they were delivered and convey them to the White House.

Why is the President pursuing a policy to increase electricity cost on Americans?

After a year in which American taxpayers saw their money wasted in high-profile failures of government-backed, so-called clean energy companies, it is surprising that DOE now uses that same term, 'double-down,' to describe the Department's…

The lack of balance in this approach is disappointing, and I hope and expect Congress will reject it.

Well, regardless of whether Yucca Mountain has a future--and apparently it doesn't--do you think there is a value in completing the scientific and technical review of the science suitability and making the results public to where people…

Mr. Secretary, two years ago the Obama Administration unilaterally shut down the Yucca Mountain project and threw U.S. nuclear waste management policy into disarray.

I think this President is going to listen to the American people and I hope he does.

I really do believe it is going to hurt our long-term economic competitiveness, our scientific enterprise, and our country.

Our national debt a year ago was just over $14 trillion dollars. Our debt today is nearly $15.4 trillion dollars.

The budget doubles down on DOE's expensive and troubled green energy programs while flat funding priority basic research at the Office of Science and cutting R&D aimed at advancing traditional domestic energy exploration and production.

We are drowning in red ink, and we need to better prioritize and develop limited R&D dollars to areas that will drive innovation and economic growth.

This level of spending is simply not sustainable, and to be perfectly blunt, it's not creating jobs, growing the economy, or improving the lives of the American taxpayer.

These efforts contribute to higher energy prices throughout the economy and represent misplaced priorities that I hope and expect Congress will reject.

The agency needs adequate resources. I am Don Quixote on this. I prefer the funding to be from public sources.

it's virtually, or to the extent that--you would be more likely to hit the moon with a Roman candle than you would to contaminate groundwater from hydraulic fracturing so many miles below the earth.

I hope I don't have to wait another 30 years to see the government finally meet its legal obligations.

While our understanding of how to handle and dispose of spent fuel has increased dramatically in the decades since, nuclear waste is managed exactly as it was in 1982.

It was time to stop playing politics and move forward with the Yucca Mountain project.

it is time to stop playing politics and move forward with the Yucca Mountain project.

it is imperative that this Sunshine Act that I am suggesting open up to the public.