Bill Nelson

I just hope and pray we don't have to go through a major hurricane strike and damage as a result of lessons, predictability in order to get the money for this new satellite.

The Senator certainly doesn't take a backseat to anyone in this Chamber in his protection of the interests of the U.S. military.

But I wished to come and express my condolences to the family of Senator Thomas and to share for them, spread upon the pages of the Congressional Record, the fact that a faithful member of the weekly Senators Prayer Breakfast was Senator…

I will conclude with this thought: Naturally, the vote that this Senator will cast on Senator Kyl's motion to instruct conferees is a very uncomfortable one because, for this Senator, if I had my druthers, would I want the estate tax…

Certainly the Senator remembers when he and this Senator from Florida introduced an amendment a year ago to allow the importation of drugs from Canada for a limited supply, stated as 90 days or less, for personal use, and how we passed…

I would encourage you to move with deliberate speed so that we can see, and the people's representatives on this Committee can do our own examination, by receiving that report.

This Committee isn't going to wait around very long, because of information that we have received ex parte about the subject of this investigation.

But there are jobs that will be provided that otherwise wouldn't have had the selection of that particular contractor not been made.

It seems that that language that sets up the process you just described is a little vague.

Do you think that NASA will pass its audits this year?

I want to point out to those that are listening that the Administrator has said early Fiscal Year 2015.

And that is that you are going to pick up some efficiencies by virtue of the fact that your selection of the contractor for the CEV is going to have some savings.

NASA's outside auditors have been unable to certify NASA's financial statements.

Well, the Chinese are going to hear that, and they're going to say, 'Well, see? We haven't appreciably added to the problem.'

Thank you for what you've done in the agency in stopping this muzzling of scientists.

I want to thank you, personally, for what you've done to try to straighten that out.

I can assure you that we are absolutely not, and will not, restrict the ability of anybody working at NASA to express their technical opinion.

Is it correct that in order to meet their recommendations, it was basically about $2 billion annually?

Is the Administration's FY 2008 budget request sufficient to support full implementation of the missions recommended by the National Academy's decadal survey in Earth science?

What are the strategic implications of this 4-year-plus gap in our Nation's ability to send humans into space?

Let's go back to the gap, which you now say is going to be early Fiscal Year 2015.

What do you think is going to be the impact upon the work force, both civil servants and contractors?

And then, you would have to have the government oversight, because it's going to interface with a government facility, the Space Station.

If successful, would that be a source of a ride for DSCOVR or for AMS?

I think that most of us believe it would be more efficient than the government, and, therefore, a good deal.