Bill Nelson

The defective drywall problem as a 'Silent Hurricane.'

I would like to personally thank Senator Nelson for his involvement in directing the IRS to provide homeowners with defective drywall the ability to claim a casualty loss on their income taxes if they had remediated their drywall homes…

I think if we put the work into it on the front end, firmly define our requirements, as Director Coats has said, we will be able to get to an answer that provides the vehicle that we need, with the proper insight, and is safe, and allows…

From your perspective, the commercial approach, such as used by companies as SpaceX and Orbital, and now Boeing is in that competition as well, versus the government approach to launch vehicle development--describe for us the differences…

As we develop this big rocket that we're referring to here as the SLS, can you elaborate on what other uses there might be for the SLS vehicle beyond NASA's Human Exploration Program?

I just want to underscore what you all said, because a lot of people miss the significance of this in all the detail.

In this budget that Senator Hutchison and Senator Mikulski passed, that for the modernizations, for you to re-do the ground facilities to accommodate these new rockets, plus the 21st century, you're looking at funds available up to $484…

That is good news, a good positive direction.

And I hope that this message is getting back to Jack Lew down at OMB.

And the Congress has spoken with regard to the direction.

We want to stop paying as quickly as we can to the Russians for the seats to get to and from the International Space Station.

We are committed to developing an affordable, sustainable, and realistic next-generation human spaceflight system...

The effective restoration of U.S. space restoration leadership is simply too important to the well-being of the nation.

What it does is, it funds two lines of rockets in parallel.

We now have to pass the appropriations bill that Senator Mikulski and Senator Hutchison have crafted.

NASA has come out very well.

NASA is cranking now.

I am not an advocate for contracting, but it may not be as disproportionate as it sounds up front.

Earned military retirement benefits need to be maintained and, as promised, delivered.

I am a firm believer in our system of federalism.

What the Miami Herald chronicled was not conditions that the community would accept at all--to the contrary, to the point of absolute shock and revulsion.

We find a better way at encouraging the states to take regulatory control of this problem and do what they should under their laws.

Let's see what we can do, at least, to make the suggestions to the states for the ombudsmen to be more effective.

Well, I want to thank all of you for a very lively discussion. I think it has enormously added to the repository of information of this committee.

So how do we prevent ALFs from becoming unregulated nursing homes?