Bob Bennett: “If we ever did allow rural America to shrivel up and blow away, we would pay a very significant price for that.”

the MDA's mission to 'deploy . . . an effective National Missile Defense system capable of defending the territory of the United States against limited ballistic missile attack' is more important now than ever.

I think they are basically irrelevant.

I would urge you to have conversations with whatever 'elves' within the administration you deal with, over at OMB, because I think that's where the decision was made.

I think the implications for this are very serious. NASA, I think, is making a mistake.