[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 48 (Thursday, March 25, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H2442]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           THE GOALS OF NASA

  (Mr. BISHOP of Utah asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Speaker, Lori Garver is the number two 
administrator at NASA, who is a political appointee that has been given 
credit as the prime author of the program to cut the Constellation.
  In a speech in Maryland a fortnight ago, she said, ``NASA has changed 
their goals,'' and seemed to indicate that the new goals of NASA will 
be to end poverty and hunger, create world peace, education, save the 
environment, and, in a note of bitter irony, create new jobs.
  It would seem that Ms. Garver perhaps should look at her door and 
realize that, since 1958, the goal of NASA has been space: to be first 
in space science, first in space exploration, first in man flights. And 
the Constellation program is the program that works, with an emphasis 
on human safety to accomplish this.
  Ms. Garver's plan would cede control of the heavens to the Russians 
and the Chinese, probably for most our lifetime, and has the unintended 
consequence of hurting education, aerospace, ironically enough defense, 
and jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, we can and should do better.

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