Bill Nelson

If those commercial rockets don't work, then for the foreseeable future of the next decade or so, we are going to be relying on the Russians just to get to and from our Space Station.

We are going to be voting on a so-called pay-as-you-go amendment, and that sounds awfully good.

Well, I want to ask you about that because you said in the second 10 years--if I recall, your projection was if the Senate health bill passed, the second 10-year period it would come down in the range of $650 billion to $1.3 trillion.

That says a lot about the willingness of folks to get our fiscal house in order.

There are going to be certain exceptions for it.

We need to ensure that the policyholder's premiums and the Federal subsidies that are going into the purchase of private health insurance on the exchange are used for actual medical care and not for wasteful administrative spending and…

Safe Kids commends Senator Klobuchar and Senator Nelson, along with the other members of this subcommittee, for promoting awareness of this hidden hazard to the public.

If we just leave it up to those local institutions--and I've been involved in getting appropriations, in order to carry out what you said, with the TRDA and the Brevard Economic Workforce Board--but those are studies. And studies are one…

We're blessed to have quite a few research parks; right now, ten and another two that are coming online in Florida.

We are about to experience some massive layoffs at the Kennedy Space Center.

This little agency is--just can be absolutely critical to helping out a number of areas.

And that seeding of the investment, seeding of the infrastructure; that would apply as well to the research parks.

When you tie it in with the research park, it just makes all the more to create private investment and to generate jobs.

These programs are successful because they leverage significant non-Federal money and work with NGOs to maximize their benefits.

I cannot support such an approach. This should be done through public-private partnerships.

Ambassador Eikenberry, in the past, U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, ISAF, the United Nations, and U.S. Agency for International Development maintained separate lists of completed and existing development projects in Afghanistan.

The AP3 is fulfilling its intent of providing security at the local level with forces recruited from the same communities they serve.

The additional marines ordered to deploy to Afghanistan will do so as a Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF).

How has the streamlining of your command--overseeing ISAF and U.S. forces in Afghanistan--affected coordination and cooperation at the tactical and strategic level?

However, while AP3 has shown some small successes, it is important to remember local security initiatives that work in some regions are not necessarily transferable to all parts of the country.

Don't we need that same kind of authority for the civilian agencies, Instead of having to go through this requisition process that takes months and months, where the people on the ground can make something happen just like your commanders…

President Karzai said that his country would not have the resources to pay for its own security for another 15 to 20 years and would remain dependent on American and NATO financial aid until then.

I want to thank them for putting partisanship aside and choosing to support our Commander in Chief in a very difficult situation.

We owe it to the American public that we maximize the chances of that not happening again.

The President is not doing this because it is politically expedient; he's doing it because he believes it's in the national security interests of the United States.