Bill Nelson

I think these scenarios need to be updated.

Improvements are still needed in the DES

I hear some of our firms complain that regulators are coming in every week, a different set.

We could require support of some funding for, for instance, better education.

Yes, I met with the National Retail Federation in June to discuss how we could do more together.

I believe we can probably obtain that information. Is that accurate?

Let us get that distributed to the subcommittee for our review.

Hey guys, I just want you to know that you have made the spring in the step of every American a little bit bouncier by what you all have accomplished.

Hey guys, I wish I were up there with you.

What these new lens, these new computers, these new instruments on Hubble are going to do for us, is help us gaze out even further, to sample cosmic rays and understand in greater detail, what is this infinite place called the universe…

This is really an incredible amount of talent, and also, talent and dedication and courage and diligence.

Unfortunately, these gains don't continue into the future, and this is where we're deeply troubled.

It's for $18.7 billion--$1 billion above the omnibus level--and also, NASA has received $1 billion in the American recovery stimulus package.

I also want to pay tribute to Senator Jake Garn... we worked together to do many sound things to achieve a balanced space program.

I really want to pay tribute to both Senator Glenn... he was a learned counselor and adviser to help me really understand the breadth and depth of the American Space Program.

The Senate is a wonderful institution, we've actually had three astronaut Senators--John Glenn, Jake Garn, and Bill Nelson.

You have to have somebody on the ground who does that and somebody who is a professional in doing that.

It is what this Nation needs. It is what Florida has been fortunate to have.

FEMA did not have its act together, and we knew that in Florida the year before when four hurricanes hit Florida in 2004 within a 6-week period.

I can testify to that because I have been sitting by his side in the Emergency Operations Center of the State of Florida since 1995 and have seen him perform under very difficult circumstances.

You have corrected a number of those deficiencies by what we have seen, the mistakes in the past.

I'm going to slip out to another appointment.

Thank you, Dr. Triay.

Now, after the stimulus bill money is over, which is in a couple of years, what happens to those jobs?

Back on the jobs, do you have an estimate of the new jobs that are created by the stimulus bill, how many are going to be Federal and how many in the private sector?