Bill Nelson

This has been an area that has been lacking for NHTSA.

On the basis of what you just said, if I were trying a jury trial, I would say, 'Your Honor, the plaintiff or the defense rests.'

A lot of police departments around the country have Ford Explorers. Well, what they're finding is the models between 2011 and 2017, have carbon monoxide poisoning coming into the vehicles.

Indeed, what we have is $100 billion or more invested in low Earth orbit.

You're talking about commercial companies suddenly taking such a large bite of the financial pie. It's possible they might choke on it, isn't it?

You know, right now, NASA is paying for the transportation cost to and from the Station on commercial cargo and soon to be American astronauts to go to and from.

NHTSA needs to be on the front lines of detecting serious vehicle safety defects and issuing recalls.

I was necessarily absent for the May 14, 2018, vote on Executive Calendar No. 780, confirmation of Michael Scudder, of Illinois, to be a judge for the Seventh Circuit. I would have voted yea. (At the request of Mr. Durbin, the following…

It's high time that steps be taken so that such a catastrophe never takes place again.

And you do not have any assurance that that business model is still there to support their commercial rockets. Is that correct?

Recall completion rates have lagged, and the death and injury toll continues to rise--particularly in my home state of Florida.

Since we have a vote in progress, Mr. Chairman, I think I'll stop right there. I thank the witnesses, thank them for their expertise, and I think that the purpose of this hearing has been accomplished.

Thank you for that comprehensive answer, and, if you would, since you have just made the case for extending the ISS, would you provide to the Committee examples of all those things that are going on that you just referenced for the…

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is for the safety of people and I just don't understand how this is such a hard question for you to answer.

It would be so nice to have you just say 'yes, I'm going to get to the bottom of these traffic problems and automobile problems that are causing deaths and injuries.'

You have my absolute commitment to continue to press each and every one of the manufacturers until each and every one of these dangerous air bags are replaced.

The addition of this safety shield could have helped saved the lives of many, including Lois Durso's daughter Roya.

Just in the state of Florida, three people are dead, 83 people are injured, as a result of these defective Takata air bags.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is going to have to do something about it.

When Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and I authored the NASA authorization bill of 2010 that set NASA off on the dual course of a commercial industry of launchers...

Obviously NHTSA needs to do more to increase highway safety, including truck safety.

Not just the transportation cost, but the $1.2 billion per year that Mr. Martin indicated just to keep the Station alive.

We've got a problem. This air bag in the middle of the steering wheel when it is older and when it is subjected to humidity, the ammonium nitrate starts to degrade.

I can tell you those towns along the road in the Panhandle, they desperately want that service that was cut off after Hurricane Katrina.

I will ensure that it conducts a thorough examination of all the matters surrounding the collapse.