a nasa earth scientist and a person who s staked hi entire career on nasa earth science satellites. i respect the senator s opinion. i think i watched the youtube clip, saw administrator s boldin s thought. my personal opinion is the state lines have revolutionized our understanding of how our complex earth works, and have really paved the way for great advances in understanding and monitoring and predicting flooding and drought, sea level rise ice sheets melting, groundwater depletionings which is the area i work on. without these satellites the human security the water security, the food security and