[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16991-16992]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       NASA REAUTHORIZATION BILL

  (Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. JACKSON LEE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, thank you so very much for the 
opportunity to address this House on an important issue that will be 
confronting this Congress today, and that is the recommitment of the 
American people to a dream and a challenge of John F. Kennedy. Today we 
will reauthorize the NASA reauthorization bill, if you will, or the 
authorization bill, to be able to commit America's future to science 
and technology.
  Although I would have advocated stronger for the work of the House 
and Chairman Gordon, I believe that we have the opportunity now to save 
jobs and to promote science and technology and to provide for the 
creation of the heavy lift launch vehicle and stop the termination of 
the workforce, technical workforce and contractor jobs that are all 
across America from Mississippi to Houston, Texas.
  In addition, this funding will support the development of commercial 
crew services. Although I am concerned about the heavy emphasis on 
commercialization to the exclusion, sometimes, of human space 
exploration, I want to see jobs being created and jobs being saved.
  And so I will rise to the floor today thanking the House Science 
Committee and saying that NASA needs to

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be reauthorized and jobs need to be saved.

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