There has to be a combination of other things. But there is so much more money in the private sector, if we figure out a way to leverage it up here.
Richard Shelby
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Richard Shelby is a former United States Senator from Alabama, serving from January 3, 1987, until January 3, 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Shelby was known for his work on various committees, including Appropriations and Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Throughout his tenure, he focused on issues such as military funding, economic development, and infrastructure improvements in Alabama.
Do you believe that the CFIUS statute as now written, which we were all involved in on this Committee, is sufficient for your work?
How do you balance that with the concerns of not exporting things that are so important to our national security with ordinary commerce?
And they are thinking in tomorrow's world through the Internet and everything that goes with it.
The terrorists are very resourceful and very smart in a lot of ways, are they not?
So they have a lot of promise, perhaps, dealing in space if we ever had a conflict dealing with space.
But we cannot have a gap to occur in our reconnaissance and everything in our intelligence gathering, can we?
Congress has directed the Department of Defense to transition from the use of the Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines.





