we certainly ought to expand the authorization of the Space Station.

If you think of the building of the Panama Canal, mosquitoes transmitted malaria. So mosquitoes are a vector which transmits a lot of diseases. This strain of mosquito can lay its larvae in stagnant water contained in something as small as…

So we're going to Mars, and the rockets and the engines and the spacecraft that are the building blocks of that mission are now being assembled and getting ready to test.

Not only is that true, but it is also indicative of how ideologically driven and how partisan driven so much of the activity here in this Capitol building is, which is what is very distasteful to the American people.

In 2021, NASA will return American astronauts to deep space.

It is truly an exciting time for our space program.

we need the Space Station up there, as a platform to do the testing.

Yes, sir. And I know that mosquitoes are all over Florida, but now this one strain of mosquito, the aegypti, for dinner feeds not on one human but on four. If the mosquito has the Zika virus, each of those four would then be infected with…

Mr. President, I yield the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from New York.

And so this committee, which has always worked in a bipartisan manner and is committed to continuing the tradition that we work together as we advance and pass another NASA reauthorization.

Not only that, but with bipartisan support early on in this whole dialogue. And now we are seeing the resistance of the majority leader to take up the very bill that passed with those overwhelming numbers of bipartisan support.