Bill Nelson

The funding is inadequate to build a timely replacement for the Space Shuttle

It's going to be important that NASA work with the industry to complete a coordinated human-rating draft by the end of this year

It is my hope that the President will also recognize the angst that is out there in the NASA family.

The perception is that the President has gutted the human spaceflight program.

The International Space Station was going to cease to exist in 2015, which, of course, was absolutely ridiculous.

Because the word, in the President's budget, was used, 'cancellation,' instead of the word 'restructuring' of Constellation, it has caused a good bit of angst.

The good news of his budget has been lost in a lot of the misperception.

Reducing the risk of relying solely on foreign crew transports for years to come

America's continued leadership in space should not depend upon the nature and timing of those answers.

The President's policy that he's proposing to us... is that the trips to and from the Space Station... can be done cheaper and more quickly by letting the commercial sector compete.

He is recommending a $6-billion increase for NASA over 5 years.

But that is not the way it is, and that is not the way it was designed in the prescription drug law of 2003.

I thought in Economics 101, the free marketplace, competition, supply and demand, I thought we learned that the more that you bought in bulk, huge purchases, the more negotiating power that you had.

For seven plans we reviewed, the average negotiated price for the cancer drug Gleevec increased by 46 percent from about $31,000 in 2006 to more than $45,000 in 2009.

Late last year, the AARP released a report that showed that while the Nation was in a recession... brand-name drugs were seeing some of their highest price increases in years.

In the Senate-passed healthcare bill, the amount of the rebate for brand-name drugs is being increased for Medicaid from 15 percent to 23 percent.

Two thirty-nine, ninety-nine to 65.

Had my amendment, and this is an academic discussion because it didn't pass. Had it passed, dual eligibles would get the same rebate when they got their drugs in Medicare that they were eligible to get those same prices under Medicaid.

Do you think the price of those drugs... are going to go up?

Our children are our most precious assets. We say it over and over again; we want to do everything we can to protect them.

The Federal Government should take a larger and more proactive role in these complex and highly technical investigations because it has the expertise to lend a hand with detailed and sophisticated analysis.

Naturally, the consternation of not knowing if this is a cancer cluster has disrupted the lives of thousands of people.

As a former prosecutor I know that the first responsibility of government is to protect our citizens.

Secretary Carter and General Moore, both of your written statements to the committee state that you expect F-35 training operations to begin at Eglin Air Force Base in late 2010 with LRIP 1 aircraft.

We must meet our obligation to the widow and orphan with the same sense of honor as was the service their loved one had rendered.