Bill Nelson

It is nice when you have a nominee up for confirmation before the Senate like Leon Panetta.

We try to take politics out of the selection of our judges by impaneling a judicial nominating commission.

When Sen. Nelson's office contacted them in my behalf, I did receive the BOA Loan Modification packet in recognizable fed ex.

I filed a bill to raise that a modest amount to 25 percent, that would give the recipients of CDBGs that flexibility.

But the subject of today's hearing, I think, underscores all the more why we need to move to the next generation of air traffic control.

And so, engaging with the Russians, to finish answering your question, was critical to being successful in the station.

We are not going to Mars or likely to an asteroid at this point with the technologies that we have.

And the authorization--just to build on your comments, the authorization bill requires NASA to look for these types of efficiencies...

Thus, the predicted cost to develop a Falcon 9, if done by NASA, would have been between $1.7 billion and $4.0 billion.

I feel a special responsibility because of my unique position as the only American who was off the planet on September 11, 2001, to spread the word that our leadership in space is vital to our way of life and our future.

America's commitment to peacefully explore and utilize space for the benefit of our citizens and people around the world is so vital to our collective future.

A robust and sustainable space exploration program is essential to building our future economy.

Our nation's future will hopefully include one or more commercially developed American crew vehicles.

I favor, I absolutely support the authorization bill's approach to this.

Cutting back on space investments is a penny-wise, but pound-foolish approach.

I am just astounded over and over that people say, well, NASA needs to advertise more what it does.

The space assets have changed the way we defend this nation.

Somehow they have gotten the impression that the space program is being shut down.

These successes in space have become an expression of our technical prowess, announcing to the rest of the world just how capable we can be.

I would agree. And I'm looking at perhaps sponsoring that legislation, myself.

What specific efforts have been made to partner with the states to ensure that TSA is granted access to states' criminal records?

NOAA needs about $800 million for a satellite called the JPSS.

Mr. Chairman, I am glad that we are discussing a concern that is so important to the folks of my State of Florida and throughout the country: the possible devastation that natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes…

I just want to make the observation that, whereas we have been able to be so sophisticated in our computer modeling... the insurance industry is still set in its ways in economic computer modeling that determines insurance rates.

Mr. Chairman, if I could just make the final observation----