Bob Bennett: “Sometime when we are not under this kind of pressure, I will have to have you explain to me why that is a good idea.”

If you call an IRS agent for advice on your taxes, there is a very good chance you will get wrong advice and end up in tax court.

I can understand the impulse for a moratorium. I am not at all sure that a blanket moratorium as broad as this one will produce any higher degree of safety than a more targeted kind of thing.

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

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.