Ralph Hall

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

It is my opinion that they have deviated from that, and they have deviated it to the extent that it is very damaging to institutions in my district and all across this country.

I think it is important that NASA allocate the cuts to its science program in a balanced manner that doesn't unduly target any single area.

There are Members who will have a tough time continuing to vote for a program that requires another infusion of over a billion dollars.

Congress' tolerance for these types of overruns has run out.

I urge the White House to exercise greater diligence, and I doubt seriously if they will listen to me.

I'm on record as saying that user fees are bad public policy.

Congress did not create, and the agency is not implementing a system by which the agency has no choice but to approve an unsafe product.

NASA's Planetary Science program has accomplished so much, and has helped stake NASA's claim as one of the world's leading science and exploration institutions.

I just wanted to thank our witnesses for being here, and to urge NASA, the Administration, the science community, and Congress to sustain this noble enterprise.

ULA strongly supports both Congress' and NASA's efforts to develop a commercial capability to meet U.S. obligations to deliver crew to and from the International Space Station.

Somebody just needs to say damn it, let us go. And I think you all are the ones to do it and hope you will.

It is undeniable that aerospace has directly contributed to this country's greatness and our preeminence in space.

I want the private markets to relieve NASA of the cost and burden of building a new launch system for low Earth orbit.

Logically, we cannot expend vast sums of money today going to Mars when our people can't go to the grocery store.

In a time of constrained budgets, we must first protect our presence in space and keep the faith with the American people and our foreign partners.

I want to talk a little about the EPA's war on energy, which is really the President's war on energy.

I urge EPA and CASAC to carefully heed the thoughtful advice of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

This is not quality science; this is press release science in which public relations is considered more important than an honest and transparent discussion of environmental outcomes and human health.

I would hope that, of all people, members of the President's cabinet would be responsible enough to ensure any public health claims are grounded in science, not hyperbole.

I was alarmed to hear Administrator Lisa Jackson explain two weeks ago that particulate matter 'does not make you sick. It is directly causal to dying sooner than you should' and that 'if we could reduce particulate matter to healthy…

I applaud the common sense decision of Administrator Sunstein and President Obama.

Like Billy Dean said, 'It ain't bragging if you can do it.' We've done it.

Thank God for teachers.

If these politically motivated, punitive regulations are allowed to stand in Texas today, they set the precedent for a runaway agency to do whatever they see fit tomorrow.