Bill Nelson

I want to particularly thank Senator Nelson not only for his focus on this issue, but for his excellent service for all Floridians--we are truly fortunate to have him represent us.

You're going to put up 4,000-plus satellites, you're going to cover every part of the globe.

It is clear that we are on the brink of a yet another leap forward in wireless communications.

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In conclusion, we can't have oil drilling, not only for our national security and the testing and training of our most sophisticated weapons systems in the Gulf off of Florida, but also we couldn't stand it if we had another oil spill that…

There has been a longstanding question of whether there would be drilling for oil in the eastern Gulf of Mexico off of the State of Florida. This had been settled in law 10 years ago. Then, my colleague Senator Mel Martinez and I passed a…

American Airlines is cutting more legroom in economy class.

I want to address the Senate on the occasion of the solemn memorial of 7 years since the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the resulting oilspill, where 11 workmen were tragically killed. The oilspill fouled the sensitive gulf ecosystem in…

Because even though information warfare has been used for years and years, we know now, as a result of the Internet, there are all new opportunities for mischief.

This is a whole new magnitude greater.

It is possible to weaponize information to accomplish their particular objectives.

The Russians, be it the Soviet Union or today, have been doing this kind of stuff for a long time.

What folks needed to understand is that metadata was business records of phone calls.

What is your rating of the National Enquirer?

If this is a new normal, what do we do to inoculate the public with call it resilience against this kind of campaign?

The private sector already is.

The key to success is continuing a balanced space program, one that does not neglect science nor aeronautics.

The Nation marshaled the resources and met that goal.

I am looking forward to that happening again now that we passed the NASA authorization bill.

SpaceX, for example, told me in a few years, they expect to be--just SpaceX--launching 40 launches a year just from the Cape.

I was the last crew member to crawl in and strap in, and as they were getting in, I wandered off on that launch tower by myself.

So how can we improve the ISS as an incubator to help enterprises such as yours, and do you see that it needs to be extended beyond the existing life, which is 2024?

The destruct system that previously was always done by the Air Force...has on some of the commercial activities and launches been replaced with an autonomous flight safety system.

I would say, in closing, Mr. Chairman, that, shortly, we expect the Vice President to be announced as the head of a re-established Space Council in the White House.

It's a dual course of the commercial as well as NASA and then getting out of low Earth orbit and going to explore the heavens.