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.

We are going to stay ahead of them because we are going to have better technology than they do.

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

I voted against the stimulus package, but there were some members, and I thought it made some sense that asked the Administration...

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

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.

You know, 50 percent of the STEM funding last year as laid on the table was not accessed.

I am not going to say everything you have said is right, or everything you said is wrong, but it was sort of a surprising decision.

If the Administration were, Dr. Holdren, to succeed in canceling the Constellation Program, what space vehicle as we sit here today is capable of carrying humans into space and how soon?