as i told ranking member suffa and we need to follow the law to build that second launcher. my commitment, sir, is to follow the law and we will continue doing that. but it's true, if we're going to accelerate the agenda to 2024, we're going to have to make a moderation to the budget request to achieve that a sdwraen. >> we look forward for the administrative -- like the charltwoman said. like the chairwoman said, we want to ghaet to you as soon as possible, hopefully by april 15. sdplz thank you very much, mr. bride bridensti bridenstine. i yield back. >> thank you, madam chairman. good morning, administrator. i have a statement that i submitted for the record that should be over there. i want to start off by talki talking -- i think you made a good point that this is not a partisan issue and shouldn't be, but i think we need something for clarity. in the fy-20 request, it states that nasa's orion spacecraft and is the backbone for exploration and which other companies could provide commercial assistance. at the senate committee hearing, you mentioned you weren't considerin