Steve Stockman: “When I was a child I looked at the TV and I watched us go up in Apollo to the Moon. I believed and saw and realized…”

“When I was a child I looked at the TV and I watched us go up in Apollo to the Moon. I believed and saw and realized America was about something greater than I could ever imagine; that was America has a vision for the future. America is a country and a nation seeking out new places. We were founded by a man that had that vision, and we continued throughout, as we looked to the West to develop, to search and look for new solutions, and to go, as they say in 'Star Trek,' boldly where no one else has ever gone. What we are saying here is if we eliminate space station, we eliminate the vision for America. We will not hear anybody coming up here and saying we will have a new solution. This is what we are going to do. Mr. Chairman, of all the money we spend in Government research, I submit this is the most important thing we do: Create new cures for illnesses and develop new processes to which we can feed the world. We are obligated. We do not have a choice in this. We have to build the space station, because up there in the skies are the solutions to here on Earth.”