"I think that is the most critical element to ensuring our long-term strength and also expanding the opportunity in this country for the least well off among us to climb the economic ladder and to achieve the American Dream."
"Quite a few of us have been concerned that the administration... has been looking for ways to implement those cuts that are visible and painful."
"We may see even further budgetary cuts at some point in the future."
"Can we have a commitment from you... to target waste, fraud, and abuse, to target redundancy, to target ways to trim the fat and tighten the belt?"
"California has already been able to realize a 25 percent cost and time savings as a result of the NEPA delegation."
"I will certainly accept as a friendly amendment to work on 10 instead of 3."
"In my judgment, the sequestration funding levels are quite likely to continue."
"As you know, the FAA is currently under a moratorium on issuing regulations regarding certain aspects of commercial spaceflight."
"I thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity for us to have this hearing and to get to know more about the exciting potential for advancing our space-related knowledge and achievement by taking adva..."
"I think that things have not materialized as quickly as perhaps Congress contemplated at the time."
"This is an experimental, high-risk situation, and the spaceflight participants... need to be fully informed of the risks."