I just want to create jobs.

It should not only be China, though. I think that is very good. But Egypt has done some torturing, and you can just go down the line.

This is an important hearing. I know that looking at the STEM money for higher education grants last year that almost 50 percent of the STEM money that was appropriated laid on the table and no one accessed it.

If you lose somebody after sixth grade, maybe it is fifth grade, maybe it is seventh grade, you are not going to find them again.

I do not think we are ceding leadership in space to the Russians and the Chinese at all.

I think it is an abdication of America's leadership. The thought of having to abdicate leadership to the Chinese...

I don't represent Alabama, I don't represent Texas, I don't represent Florida. I represent the Northern Virginia area.

NASA sparks vision and hope and inspiration in young people where no other government agency can.

I support strongly what Mr. Ruppersberger does in his committee, and how important those intelligent assets are in orbit.

When do you see NASA issuing a contract for heavy-lift system?

I think sometimes when you have something like this, this is very important.

the best job, though, is a job that is abroad that should have never left a little town in West Virginia or a little town in Virginia, that was taken over by it, and it is gone.