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

So we should ignore that request then?

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.

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

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

Please raise these issues.

It is time for the U.N. to do even more to hold them to account.

Frank Wolf, Congressman from Virginia, and I have tried repeatedly to go to Cuba--have been denied a visa each time--with the express purpose of going to the prisons.

China is a greater threat than the Soviet Union ever was, but now the West lacks visionary politicians such as Ronald Reagan to stand up to that threat.

Wolf, Hon. Frank, a U.S. Representative from Virginia; Member, Congressional-Executive Commission on China.

It's clear that the current approach to China is not working.