Bill Nelson: “all four of the Armed Services and Appropriations Committee bills eliminated this $10 million for the proposed space…”

“all four of the Armed Services and Appropriations Committee bills eliminated this $10 million for the proposed space test bed because that is the initial step toward deploying space-based interceptors for missile defense. So everybody understands what that means, the space test bed is intended to deploy weapons in space. If that is not the Senator's intention, then we ought to look to this space situational awareness which is the question of us protecting assets in space.”