Duncan Hunter: “President Trump's Space Policy Directive-2 directs the executive branch to 'encourage American leadership in space' and…”

That is unacceptable. There is no reason to be testing something that the Navy has been using for 5 years.

But don't spend $18 billion that way. Spend it where it has the most effect, which is the U.S. Coast Guard.

Our entire way of life is dependent on space. And our, not enemies necessarily, but our competitors know that.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for his service. If you don't know, Scott Taylor enlisted in the Navy SEALs in 1997, got out, and then went back to Iraq in 2005. In Ramadi, as a Navy SEAL sniper, he was injured. And here he is now. I…