[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 76 (Thursday, June 3, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H3749-H3750]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           BIPARTISAN AMERICAN VISION FOR LEADERSHIP IN SPACE

  (Mr. FEENEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)

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  Mr. FEENEY. Mr. Speaker, there are some enormous issues that face 
America today, but something is lost, as we talk about the challenges 
in the war on terror and the President's leadership in Iraq and, of 
course, finally, the strongly recovering economy under President Bush's 
leadership, is the President's space vision for tomorrow.
  It becomes important that we pay attention to the great things that 
the President has proposed. For the first time really in 2 decades, we 
have a new space vision to guarantee that America will continue to be 
the predominant space leader through the next millennium, as it has 
been over the last 50 years. It is important that we return the Shuttle 
to flight; it is important that we complete the international space 
station. But more importantly, the President has given us a new vision 
so that we can explore mid-Earth orbit and outer-Earth orbit.
  Mr. Speaker, I suggest that Sean O'Keefe is doing a wonderful job. I 
hope this House will be able to focus in the next 5 months and after 
the election on a bipartisan American vision for leadership in space. 
The President's vision is affordable, it is visionary, it is flexible; 
and, most important, it will maintain America's leadership in space.

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