In 2010 the ocean economy contributed $258 billion to the U.S. gross domestic product.

we have funded NSF at the highest level ever.

I am here to support the Bureau moving its headquarters to the State of Virginia.

I would encourage the subcommittee not to limit its search to sites no further than 2.5 miles from the Capital Beltway.

Obviously, I am here to support the Bureau moving its headquarters to the State of Virginia.

This is not a partisan issue.

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

I think it would really be good for the country.

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.