Bill Nelson

Companies have to know what they can buy insurance for.

We do not know what we are going to be finding, just like we did not know when we went to the Moon what we would find exactly and what we would gain from it.

She is the reason that there is a designated national laboratory on the Space Station, and she has been consistently the promoter of the International Space Station.

This is an important time for us to have this hearing because we are in the state of change from a reliable system of the Space Shuttle now bringing in commercial but, in parallel, continuing NASA's mission of exploring the heavens, of…

I urge the Members of this Committee to support including export control reform measures within the Fiscal Year 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.

Good morning. We are starting promptly because the Senate will have a series of votes that will start shortly after 11 o'clock.

This hearing is timely in the risks, opportunities, and oversight in commercial space considering the fact that SpaceX has had the success that they have.

So there is a balance that you have to achieve here.

We have simply got to continue this.

We are not shortchanging the future by only focusing on the present.

I share the survivors' goal: to make sure that remaining survivors are not left destitute, are respected, and have access to the records, resources, and justice that they are, frankly, entitled to.

The purpose of this bill is to allow survivors and heirs who believe that they may have claims against European insurers because of unpaid policies from the Holocaust to sue those insurers in U.S. courts.

And I am pleased to welcome everyone here to participate in the discussion.

It is time for us to do justice for these people.

I would note that I am a cosponsor of Senator Schumer's bill, which is the Holocaust Rail Justice Act, which is also the subject of today's hearing.

This issue is extremely important. It is compensating Holocaust survivors and their loved ones for the value of insurance policies they held before and during World War II.

I have always believed that people who are wronged are entitled to seek justice.

The way I understand it, the sequester was never supposed to go into effect.

Veterans Conservation Corps Authorization Act

When a veteran comes home... they cannot get a job.

We have had a number of cases of the burn pit exposure in Florida, and it is horrific.

We have an obligation... 8.2 percent unemployment nationally; among veterans, it is 12.7 percent.

It's up to us to stand by our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, and coast guardsmen.

We would like to thank Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) for introducing S. 260 and the 50 Senators who have co-sponsored this important legislation to repeal the SBP-DIC offset.

Final point. Let me ask you about the much-maligned stimulus bill. One of the biggest parts of that... was to help out the States with Medicaid and also education.