Bill Nelson

Our Air Force range system is not as flexible as it needs to be to ensure the growing number of launches that are required.

The Army's 7th Special Forces Group is in the process of moving from Fort Bragg, NC, to Eglin Air Force Base, FL.

Secretary McHugh and General Casey, the Army recently withdrew the mobilization for training option for Reserve component soldiers.

Secretary McHugh and General Casey, what additional military construction (MILCON) funding is needed to rehabilitate and construct Reserve centers and National Guard facilities for training and duty?

What risk does your budget take with equipping and training the Guard and Reserves?

Is the move on time?

Secretary McHugh and General Casey, please describe the Grow the Force initiatives that will increase the Army Reserve Forces in Florida and other States.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have transformed our Guard and Reserve Forces from Strategic Reserves to an operational force.

The additional funds would be used for the replacement and restoration of critical infrastructure and instrumentation.

For the long term, we're going to have to have some kind of international trusteeship.

Just a quick comment, if you would, Admiral, about the role of Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) aircraft in Afghanistan?

The American military leads. You are the point of the spear. You make it happen.

I certainly am not going to look forward to a fight in the Budget Committee, the Senate Armed Services Committee, and the Appropriations Committee on a decision that the Navy and Secretary Gates have made that is essential to the national…

Is it true that the lessons of Pearl Harbor... is still a lesson that is taught in the United States Navy?

We have been through this process laboriously now for the 10 years that I have been Senator.

I believe the most recent number we have received from the Department is that insurance policy is at a cost of $671 million.

We think you have grossly underestimated the costs of this so-called insurance policy.

Human exploration beyond low-earth orbit is not viable under the fiscal year 2010 budget guideline.

You can't do it on the cheap and that is the big difference.

The President, with regard to the future of manned space flight, appointed a Blue Ribbon Panel.

The whole thing, we are going to forgive about $1.6 trillion that we are not going to pay.

Well, now, is it not true that one of the things that you cannot score when you do a score for the Senate health bill is the insurance reforms, things like that insurance companies cannot suddenly cancel you for pre-existing conditions...

The fact that we only got 53 votes for setting up a commission in the statutes that you and Senator Gregg proposed I think is a shame.

I choose to disagree with that characterization. It was a namby-pamby watered-down statement that was oblique, at best.

I want to ask you a friendly question and I want to ask you an unfriendly question.