Bill Nelson

And what are some of those organisms?

You're going to see lawsuits like you've never seen before between the various entities, because this economic loss is going to skyrocket higher than our space program.

You are the manufacturer of the blowout preventer that did not work?

Do you support my bill to raise the liability limits from 75 million to 10 billion?

How is it that BP is going to be able to afford all of this economic loss?

Thank you very much.

I think you see the potential.

OK. So, that's two people that you lost, that you don't have any indication that the switch was flipped.

Can you explain that? What is the toxicity, and what are the components that are so toxic?

I want to follow up on that.

I have a letter here from Rear Admiral Landry, of which--she sent it to BP, asking for full access to all information related to the oil discharge rate.

Have you confirmed the existence of the deep sea plumes?

And what is the long-run effect of those organisms absorbing those toxins?

It took Senator Boxer and me several days of insisting before BP would release any additional video.

So, the fact that you all were the operators of the blowout preventer and the drilling of the well, you consider that liability for economic loss not to be yours, but, rather, to be BP's.

So, you feel satisfied that you're having access to all the video footage?

The gap was created 5 years ago, and that it is a fait accompli.

This Congress has to make a bipartisan decision whether to realign the NASA 2011 Budget to maintain the United States a leader in the exploration of space as outlined by the Constellation Program or forgo the prestige and respect we now…

I do believe that there is value in returning to the Moon.

We, as Americans, are by nature explorers. We have always had a frontier.

The gap initiated by the retirement of the Space Shuttle... represents the impact of a decision made by the present Administration.

That frontier is no longer westward. That frontier is upward.

Did you have any discussions with the Department of Defense upon the effect of the cancellation of the solid rocket motor program in NASA on DOD?

The mistakes that were made in the rollout which unfairly characterized the President as an opponent of human spaceflight

What the Chairman of the Augustine Commission wanted to do was to get that excitement returned.