Frank Wolf

I would think most members up here would agree that the top priority is closing the gap and not seeding the companies

We are going to make sure to restore the vision and the excitement that the program has always had, despite the best efforts of this administration to throw a wet blanket over it.

The administration's budget proposal walks away from America's leadership role in planetary exploration, it essentially cancels the Mars program.

It is NASA's policy that all projects budget to a 70 percent joint cost and schedule confidence level estimate.

So we should ignore that request then?

NASA has proposed, though, to delete the cost control language in the fiscal year 2013 request.

I understand that the budget pressures required you to make cuts to your science programs, but I don't understand why those cuts are overwhelmingly in planetary science.

China, an economic competitor who has been proven to steal from us, doesn't need or deserve our help to improve their own capabilities.

There is only two types of companies in America. Those who know they have been hacked by the Chinese, and those that do not know they have been hacked by the Chinese.

Does it trouble you that it falls below the 70 percent standard?

The principal reason the F-35 program has been so expensive... is that as fast as our guys develop a new piece of technology... Chinese hackers have logged onto the meeting.

The Chinese will be able to implement their own Monroe Doctrine for the South China Sea.

A lot of other people did it.

The law is unambiguous. This is not optional. This is not a recommendation of the Congress; it is mandatory.

I appreciate the good work that Dr. Wieman and Dr. Suresh did to review all Federal STEM education programs.

What proposals are in the fiscal year 2013 R&D budget that will persuade Apple and other high tech companies that the U.S. can not only be a viable but a desirable place to manufacture their products?

Does this trouble you with regard to these Confucius Institutes and having this as a policy?

I was surprised too, before I read the Bloomberg thing.

In order to achieve those goals more quickly, they engage in espionage to boost their capabilities.

The new language requires you to certify that any bilateral activity will not result in the transfer of technology with national or economic security implications.

To have him as your jobs guy, I do not see how you can even do it.

I think American taxpayers and American workers have been taken for a ride.

If Congress comes up with a different result and passes a bill and the President signs it, my advice to the President will be to follow the law and to pursue the program that the Congress has authorized and appropriated.

But if they could all come together, you have saved from that.

Well, I don't know what the answer is, so I will make it clear that I don't.