If we just leave it up to those local institutions--and I've been involved in getting appropriations, in order to carry out what you said, with the TRDA and the Brevard Economic Workforce Board--but those are studies. And studies are one thing. Moving jobs is another thing entirely.
Senator Nelson emphasizes the difference between studies and actual job creation.
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One of the reasons you and I were able to accomplish so much on this committee is both of us worked very hard to keep politics out of NASA and to focus on the core mission of exploration.
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