Bill Nelson

We are also confident that this budget supports a 2018 launch for the James Webb Space Telescope.

I am committed to making this national resource, that is the International Space Station, available to a broader scientific and commercial research communities.

Thank you, General Bolden, for your service to this country.

Those are hard dates, and they are evidence that we are pushing forward with the development of the SLS and MPCV.

So what we need to do is work with you at coming up with a number for Commercial and not at the same time sacrifice anything on the big rocket and Orion.

I am very sympathetic to what you are saying, that in order to stay on a schedule of 2017 to launch Commercial Crew, you are going to need more than $406 million.

I had asked for a timetable for when those standards would be ready, which you provided for this hearing.

Isn't it the mesmerizing possibility of space travel that excites kids so much to want to get into math and science and technology? And we're making NASA clamp down on their educational efforts?

Dr. Gallagher, do you want to tell us about your proposed centers of excellence?

Are you finding that the new patent bill is helping you as you try to take a scientific discovery to an idea?

If you're going to whack 25 percent of the education budget, how are you going to inspire all of this next generation of scientists and engineers?

Thank you all for what you do. It's important to the future of this country.

America expects boldness from NASA.

This cruise industry produces 120,000 jobs in Florida and untold amounts of economic activity because of this phenomenon that cruise guests fly in and they stay a night or two, getting ready for the cruise, and then they go to the cruise.

The cruise industry is the single largest contributor to overnight stays, to occupancy of hotels, in our community.

Five of those ports have a heavy emphasis on cruise and cruise-related business.

PortMiami, obviously, is a critical job creator--a job incubator, if you will, for our state.

Programs like RMAP are critical to rural America, small businesses that make up 90 percent of all rural businesses.

If we do not broaden the base for feedstocks, it is going to be nearly impossible to reach the 36 billion gallons requirement by 2022.

Our new national strategy calls for an increase in our presence.

I hope that you'll take a very, very close look at this, whether it's the Council of Governors or just in general, to be sure that we're moving in the right direction.

To oversimplify, but to put in layman terms, it's pretty hard to fight in cyber space, cyber and space commands, with drop cords.

But sometimes you have to make the ask or you don't get the offer.

We ought not to be looking at senior partners-junior partners when it comes to the expenditures or the requirements.

The new U.S. national strategy, as has been indicated, calls for the increase in our presence and involvement, more involvement in the Asia-Pacific region.