On the recordJune 28, 2010
I appreciate the gentleman from Texas, the points that he made and especially the poignant letter that came out and illustrating how the overwhelming majority--in fact, I would say almost all but one--of our retired astronaut core feels very strongly that Constellation was the right approach for this country to do and that we should continue on with that particular approach. I would like to go back to a couple of points. I hope I am not redundant, but I think they are significant enough that even if we say them a second time, it's important. And I would hope the gentleman from Texas would stay here and try to fill in the blanks where I miss those, if we could. There was quick mention, once again, as I said, on the jobs that we are talking about here. The Vice President recently sent out a press release, announcing that he was going on his summer tour to tout the ``Summer of Recovery.'' Now, amongst the bullet points that they put in that press release was that this administration would be proposing programs to build up to 30,000 miles of new roads, up to 2,000 new water programs, up to 80,000 homes that might be weatherized, 800 jobs here, some there, asking this country to add a nongermane issue to the military supplemental to try to protect government worker jobs.
