ist and author of the book "doctor in the house" and dr. marsy who is a primary physician. k you for being here. congressman dr. burgess . you are in congress and you are a medical is it true that the gop and the republicans in the house just don't have ideas for medicine. >> just watching those clips i had forgotten how intensely uncomfortable it was to go through 2009 and hear that. we had ideas and probably too many idea couldn't get them out but we were never consulted. and interestingly when you go back and look at the history of the whole thing and parent. from the start it was done behind closed doors and they even cut out the democratic house of representatives. it was on rails and a path and they were not listening to anyone. else. >> if it was nolt doctors designed help. who in the heck was coming up with the stuff. >> secret meetings and five or six folks that were down there and unions down there they had a huge. and a lot of collective bargaining is it based on health care benefits. and they wrote a law and our committee did an investigation and the report is up

dr. john grunsfeld, dss yet dministration for nationsa's science mission. the marsintist for the address the mission, and after that update, we will move on to our witness panel, where we will examine the progress of nasa's exploration program under the nasa authorization bill that was passed in 2010, particularly as it relates to future human missions to mars. so our witnesses include doctors did the -- dr. steven squryes, dr. charles cakennel, chairman of the national academies of space studies, and mr. jim maser, president of pratt and whitney rocketdyne, a company that does a lot of things, but specializes in rocket propulsion technologies. i want to welcome all of you here today. would you all -- dr. grunsfeld, would you like to introduce 13? >> certainly. i will introduce to my left, dr. li, and we will work from there, but thank you very much for inviting us here, because this is a spectacular result that we had a successful landing of curiosity on the surface of mars. but hopes and dreams for this mission were that even just the seven minutes of terror leadin