Dana Rohrabacher: “If this bill is voted down, we are told to vote this bill down because there is not enough regulation in the bill…”

“If this bill is voted down, we are told to vote this bill down because there is not enough regulation in the bill, regulatory power given to the FAA in the bill to protect the public. Well, there is protection in the bill, and there would be no protection, zero protection, if this bill goes down. Voting against this bill will also expose the Federal Government to liability for licensed launches. All of a sudden, we have a situation where it is not a question of whether or not we are going to have something a year or 2 from now, after some magical time period, after working on this 2 years, if it is just brought back next year, after a short period of time, the problems will be solved. We are going to go through a time period when we basically have zero protection, and the Federal Government will be totally exposed to liability claims. This bill will basically convince people who want to create this new industry, the space launch industry, that they should not do it in the United States of America. They will go overseas. This will strangle the industry in the cradle, as I said over and over again, and it will force these people to launch their rockets and build them overseas.”