Frank Wolf actually said...

They have done a magnificent job for so long, but they have been hamstrung, as we all know, by pillar-to-post funding.

We need to give NASA the ability to design and build spacecraft and rockets in the same way that the Navy... does.

I think if we make these changes, the odds of American maintaining its preeminence in space for the 21st century will dramatically improve.

It is destructive to the morale of the space program, destructive to the psyche of the agency, destructive to the psyche of the country.