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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaqqx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP COMMERCE, JUSTICE, SCIENCE, AND RE- LATED AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012 MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2011 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 4:05 p.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Barbara A. Mikulski (chairman) pre- siding. Present: Senators Mikulski, Brown, Hutchison, and Cochran. NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION STATEMENT OF HON. CHARLES F. BOLDEN, JR., ADMINISTRATOR OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR BARBARA A. MIKULSKI Senator MIKULSKI. The Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies will come to order today. We take the testimony of the current Administrator and former astronaut, the Honorable Major General Charles F. Bolden, Jr., to review the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) fiscal year 2012 budget request and to also talk about how this might be also in light of what we just have gone through. Administrator Bolden, we're glad to see you. We want to thank you for coming on a Monday at 4 o'clock. Our hearing normally oc- curs on Thursday mornings. We couldn't do this when we thought we could. But, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and I did not want to delay the hearing, because it would have taken us after the Easter/Passover recess, and we wanted to be able to really get cracking on our fiscal year 2012 appropriations. So, we thank you for doing this. And we look forward to your testimony. Well, I'm glad to see you and we're glad to be here. And so, both of us-all of us-were declared essential. I know that what we just lived through last week was a cliff- hanger. It rattled many people. It certainly rattled us. We felt that it would have been a disaster, had we had a shutdown, to, really, the economy and the reputation of the United States of America. We have now been called upon to accept $78 billion worth of cuts from the President's 2011 request, $39 billion below the 2010 level. That was the mark that was given us. Now, all of our staffs have worked through the night. And I'd like to thank Senator Hutchison's staff for really hanging in there and working with us.

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