mr. armstrong, very much. captain cernan? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i also want to again thank you for inviting me to express my personal views. the administration's 2011 budget as it pertains to america's role in the future of the human space exploration. one month ago neil armstrong, jim lovell and i released a paper concerning the administration's proposed space budget. we spent a great deal of time writing and refining over and over again the document choosing our words very carefully. words like devastating, fly to mediocrity and third rate stature. primarily because we did not want to be misunderstood war ended we want to be misinterpreted. we particularly wanted to avoid any political overtones because cents the beginning days of nasa, its support has come from the traditionally by partisan politics and transcended our political differences. we've recently heard a lot of verbiage about the exploration of space landing on an asteroid, circling mars and someday maybe even landing on a red planet. the talk about a decision yet to come about buildi

mr. armstrong, very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i also want to thank you for inviting me today.to express my personal views concerning the administration's 2011 budget as it pertains to america's role in the future of human space exploration. one month ago, neil armstrong, jim lovell, and i released an opinion paper expressing our concern over the administration's proposed space budget. we spent a great deal of time writing and refining over and over again this document, choosinging our words very carefully, words like devastating, slide to mediocrity, presumably because we did not want to be misunderstood nor misinterpreted. >> we particularly wanted to avoid any political overtones. since the beginning days of nasa, its support has come from traditionally bipartisan politics. it has transcended our political differences. we have recently heard a lot of eloquent verbage about the exploration of space, landing on an asteroid, circling mars, and someday maybe even landing on the red planet. there is talk about a decision yet to come about building a large booster which might ulti

mr. armstrong, you made the case in your statement, and we will place in the record

armstrong? the dollar back to mr. campbell now?> if you guys cannot keep it straight, we're in trouble. >> i think we jped, but that is all right. >> ms. fiorina, we go to you. despite some of the highest unemployment in e country, many central valley leaders believe that their region is being neglected. a majority of the federal stimulus dollars went to northern and southern california. what can you do to make sure that all of california receives proper representation and its fair share of federal funds? >> i reject the premise of your question because you assume that the federal stimulus program has been helpful to california. i am sure it has created a job or two but the reality is that the unemployment rate in california has climbed since the implementation of whatever federal stimulus dollars have come to california. that is not how we're going to get the economy back on track. i have lived the american dream. i started out as a receptionist. i typed, i fil, i answered the phone. the people who are going to get the american dr

mr. neil armstrong commander of apollo 11 and eugene cernan, commander of apollo 17.ice. in the past i should say in ending i have been critical of nasa's financial and program management. am still that way as we move towards reauthorization i firmly believe this committee has a huge oversight role to play. nasa cannot continued on the same path and that judgment. i turn now to my distinguished partner, senator kay bailey hutchison. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm very pleased we have this hearing because i have been alarmed at the plans that have been put forward not the goal of the plans i agree with the goal. we should utilize safe science research that cannot be done as well in gravity conditions on earth and we need to be bold in exploring space so that we maintain our superiority in space exploration. i appreciate all vigorously the two of you. general holdren, you have a distinguished career and are the at the minister and dr. holdren from the white house council of science and technology policy and i am very pleased, mr. chairman we do have the first man who w

mr. armstrong. >> despite significant rain and snowfall this winter and spring, the state of california still faces a severe water crisis in the central valley where it has crippled farming. there have been other problems there ago what specific actions should congress take to keep the water flowing to the farms and still protect the ecosystem of the delta at? >> there is nothing more important than to get our greatest industry, agriculture, back moving again. in the short term, we need to have a bill that will open up the floodgates once again. that was done for the -- back in the 1970's. it could be done in terms of the delta smelt. we need to build more reservoirs. we need to expand the dam north of the delta. we need to expand the flaps south of the delta. those are the steps to take our 48 year-old water infrastructure and to the present system. if we do not do that, we will continue to have a sequence of dry years and white years. during the dry years, do not make it worse by having the government sponsored. those of the steps we should take for the long term. senator boxer did not help

armstrong? the dollar back to mr. campbell now?annot keep it straight, we're in trouble. >> i think we jumped, but that is all right. >> ms. fiorina, we go to you. spite some of the highest unemployment in the country, many central valley leaders believe that their region is being neglected. a majority of the federal stimulus dollars went to northern and southern california. what can you do to make sure that all of california receives proper representation and its fair share of federal funds? >> i reject the premise of your question because you assume that the federal stimulus program has been helpful to california. i am sure it has created a job or two but the reality is that the unemployment rate in california has climbed since the implementation of whatever federal stimulus dollars have come to california. that is not how we're going to get the economy back on track. i have lived the american dream. i started out as a receptionist. i typed, i filed, i answered the phone. the people who are going to get the american dream back on

mr. neil armstrong, commander of apollo 11 and eugene cernan, commander of apollo 17.we thank them for their service. in the past i should say in ending i have been critical of nasa's financial and program management. i am still that way as we move towards reauthorization i firmly believe this committee has a huge oversight role to play. nasa cannot continued on the same path and that judgment. i turn now to my distinguished partner, senator kay bailey hutchison. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm very pleased we have this hearing because i have been alarmed at the plans that have been put forward not the goal of the plans i agree with the goal. we should utilize safe science research that cannot be done as well in gravity conditions on earth and we need to be bold in exploring space so that we maintain our superiority in space exploration. i appreciate all vigorously the two of you. general holdren, you have a distinguished career and are the at the minister and dr. holdren from the white house council of science and technology policy and i am very pleased, mr. chairman

concentration on basic space science, armstrong and fellow former astronauts eugene cernan and jim lovell released a statement calling the decision "devastating." mr. obama's plan would boost nasa's budget by $6 billion over five years, focusing on spurring the private space transportation industry, while nasa looks to develop rockets to take crews to asteroids, the moon and, eventually, mars. at a senate hearing today, armstrong said the president should have stayed the course. and continuing that investment, sharing it with the rest of the world, has been made wisely. >> holman: but john holdren, director of the office of science and technology, said the administration's goal is to find new ways to explore space. >> we couldn't have it both ways, couldn't continue to invest in the old program at levels it was requiring and invest in these possibilities. >> holman: but armstrong said what will be lost cannot be regained. >> america's respected for its contributions it has made in learning to sail on this new ocean. it's a leadership we have acquired through our investment is simply allowed to fade away. other nations will surely step in where we

mr. heath's private personal secretary wrote this confidential account of what happened then. he's in westminster now. lord armstrong, if gordon brown were not to get the largest number of constituency, could he remain as prime minister? he could explore whether there was any means by which he could make a coalition or an understanding or an arrangement with the liberal democrats. such as to give him, with the two of them, either an overall majority, or an understanding of -- which would give him the assurance he could carry on. >> how long would he to do that? >> as long as it takes. he -- it's up to him. he remains prime minister unless and until he resigns. >> where is the justice of that, if he hasn't got the largest number of seats? >> the justice would be, i suppose, that as he himself has been saying, there's an anti-conservative majority and he would be putting that at the head of affairs of the house of commons. >> now, constitutionally, could david cameron at the same time be trying to assemble some sort of group sufficiently large to overwhelm the majority? >> he certainly could. he could be talking to th