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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.
My goal during consideration of this legislation here will be to reshape this bill so that it actually ends bailouts, protects consumers without jeopardizing our small community banks, and brings transparency, as Senator Dodd mentioned, to…
The idea that something should be too big to fail is very important to me. Nothing should be too big to fail, in my judgment, in this country.
The future of human space flight is being proposed to be given, as I understand it, to companies that have never launched humans before.
I fail to see how this escape pod will lessen our reliance on other nations for our access to space.
I hope we could reserve the right to hold another hearing on this matter, if warranted.
If the commercial route is truly the route that you are headed; wouldn't it be cheaper and wiser to just use a Dragon capsule for this purpose?
It is my understanding that you have stated to congressional members that you think Ares and Orion are no safer than the Falcon 9 and Dragon capsule.
Obama doesn't get it. Space is last frontier. President Obama, in effect, pulled the plug on our space program.
It seems to me this is a clear violation of the law that says no money will be used--no funds will be used in any way to change or modify the program for fiscal 2010.
I think the prudent financial circumstance is to stay with what we have got instead of plunging into the unknown.
I don't believe the administration fully understands the drastic impact this decision will have on our national security.
At the current time, for NASA to put its employees, its astronauts onboard something as potentially hazardous as a rocket ship, they are going to have to have a robust program to check its safety.
The President's alternative plan will actually cost us more money and delay our ability to get ourselves into space.
The jobs that are promised to be created will hardly materialize before the pink slips begin to arrive.
This request represents nothing more than a commercially led, faith-based space program.
The President's alternative plan does not provide significant advantages in cost, schedule, performance, or safety.
Your destructive actions toward the Constellation program will only ensure that members cannot trust you.
The President's new plan, like his old one, shows that NASA's leadership team still does not understand the issues at stake.
This will certainly lead to price spikes at the Department of Defense for smaller tactical missiles.
To abandon Ares I as a baseline vehicle for an alternative without demonstrated capability nor proven superiority, or even equivalence, is unwise and probably not cost-effective.
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