Chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., left, shakes hands with NASA Administrator Michael Griffin prior to a hearing on the future of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) and results of the Nunn-McCurdy review of NOAA’s weather satellite program, Thursday, June 8, 2006, at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)