Bill Nelson: “Intercity passenger rail has an important role to play in our national transportation system, as do transit systems.”

Understand that this isn't all like we are pouring money down a rathole. Look what it is doing for our country.

Look what happened when we spent the money on the Apollo program. Two generations of technology development came out of it.

Not only work with you, we want it to work, because the Habitable Worlds, which is one that we go in the 2040s, we have got to start it now.

Today we find ourselves in yet another space race, this time with China.