[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 62 (Wednesday, May 18, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 18, 1994]
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         INTRODUCTION OF LEGISLATION TO STOP THE SPACE STATION

  (Mr. ROEMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROEMER. Mr. Speaker, if you were investing in the stock market 
and you could invest in the space station, two of the things that you 
would evaluate would be, on the one hand, the track record, the past, 
and, on the other hand, the future prospects.
  The track record of the space station has been for 10 years that we 
have invested $11 billion. We have redesigned it seven times, and we 
still barely have a name for it let alone any kind of hardware.
  The future? Now we have a space station which we are supposed to 
invest with Russia on. We are losing jobs with this new space station. 
It is down approximately 20,000 jobs from the last Freedom space 
station, and we are turning the NASA budget into a foreign aid budget 
with $400 million going from NASA science to the Russians.
  This space station must be stopped, and I am introducing a bill today 
to stop it, and I would encourage my colleagues to support this 
legislation.

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