[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 10, 2010)]
[House]
[Pages H1295-H1296]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  PROVIDING FOR NASA SPACE EXPLORATION

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Madam Speaker, I rise today to ask my 
colleagues to join me in cosponsoring H. Con. Res. 1150, which 
establishes NASA and all of its assets as a national security interest.
  We need to work with the President in moving forward on restoring the 
funds for the Constellation Program and to reemphasize and recommit 
ourselves to human space exploration. In the current budget of the NASA 
program, funds have been increased, but funds have been taken away from 
the Constellation Program. In essence, it has been canceled.
  My request is that we have our task before us, and the answer is 
simple: to reprogram the funds that are in the NASA budget to ensure 
that this great asset of NASA, NASA Johnson, the NASA centers in 
Alabama and Mississippi and Florida and elsewhere, are maintained.

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  The international space station has been built over the last 10 
years. It has been built with the genius, the intellect, and the 
research of the United States. That research and genius and that kind 
of data requires protection as a national security interest. The 
funding that needs to be restored will help create this opportunity and 
save jobs.
  Let us save jobs and provide for NASA space exploration.

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