Michael D. Griffin: “The larger rocket, the SLS, to which General Hyten referred, is intended for human exploration of the solar system…”

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1775, the Stolen Valor Act of 2011, and urge its passage. I would like to thank Congressman Joe Heck for his leadership on this issue as well as Judiciary Committee…

If we treated the Air Force as we do the space program, we wouldn't have any flying aircraft.

China is the big problem. And I think we need to focus our efforts on first taking care of the big problems.

Let us again, as we did after the loss of Columbia, decide as a nation what we want to see accomplished in space.