[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5470]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            SUPPORTING FUNDING FOR THE CONSTELLATION PROGRAM

  (Mr. ADERHOLT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ADERHOLT. Mr. Speaker, since the President announced his budget 
on February 1, disapproval of a plan to drastically change the current 
NASA human space exploration mission has been almost unanimous on both 
sides of the aisle. The President proposes to add $6 billion to NASA's 
budget for the next 5 years, but over those first 4 years the 
exploration account decreases by $5.7 billion.
  Human space flight and exploration beyond Earth is the very reason 
that NASA was put into existence. The President's plan moves funds to 
unproven proposals and costs the government $2.5 billion to shut down 
the Constellation Program. Ares I and Ares V overlap technologies, and 
there is zero budget proof that the administration's new plan will give 
us those capabilities with less money.
  The innovative scientists and employees at the Marshall Space Flight 
Center in Huntsville, Alabama, have done a great job in leading space 
technology in the world.
  Mr. Speaker, when the President speaks tomorrow at the Kennedy Space 
Center, both Democrat and Republican Members hope that he will make a 
commitment to properly fund the Constellation Program.

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