They are on a hunger strike because they want a hearing in court with a lawyer of their own. They are willing to starve themselves to death.

This would be the same as taking away the right to a hearing, or the right to respond to a statement of objections.

This is one of the worst things the Senate has ever done. On the back of a cocktail napkin they have tossed aside protections of individual liberty that have been in existence for centuries.

Hunger follows us like our shadow.

NASA represents something important in the national psyche. Given that, there isn't a lot of hunger to cut NASA substantially, nor to cripple their ability to explore space.

At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.