Bill Nelson

The memories still linger, 5 years ago, Deepwater Horizon.

The key to our future operational success is stable and predictable funding.

General Kelly, the Commander of SOUTHCOM, doesn't have enough Coast Guard out there to stop the drugs.

This is truly an issue of capacity.

Investing in 21st-century Coast Guard platforms and people is a smart choice.

I'm very proud of the work of this subcommittee. It's doing important stuff.

And to think that that's who we would be putting into the right seat of the cockpit on a regional airline does not build confidence, in the traveling public.

And it seems, to this Senator, that it's common sense if we are going to give the assurances to the traveling public that they are going to be safe.

Now, that's so common sense to take care of this problem. What do you all think about that?

You cannot get it right unless you have the numbers, and you cannot get the numbers unless you have the instruments, whether they be on the ground or up on orbit.

We had to go through that experience in order to wake up to using some common sense.

If you have the tools, whether it is through social media, whether it is through the new social media that so many young people are on, if you had the tools to accurately forecast, they could get out the word.

In the early 1990s--Florida, which is quite accustomed, we are a peninsula sticking down into the middle of what is known as 'Hurricane Highway' but we had not had a lot of direct hits by the big ones.

Forecasting weather is so important to us.

Subsequent analysis shows that it actually exceeded that, so it would be a hurricane Category 5.

Really, I want to underscore the importance of your position.

We are gratified that Congress has allocated the money to NOAA to increase our computing capacity for our weather models

We have some folks that do not like climate change around here.

Here comes one the first part of the season, middle of August, named Andrew, headed straight for the southern part of the peninsula.

There is a next generation of Doppler radars called 'NEXRAD,' which will enable you to detect the formation of a tornado before they touch down. It will reduce deaths by 34 percent is the estimate, and injuries reduced by 45 percent.

Hurricane Andrew ended up being categorized as a Category 4, that is up to 145 miles per hour.

Sequestration in the Budget Control Act has--will have negative impacts, as structured, for U.S. Special Operations Command.

Last year, Congress provided DOD with a CT-focused transfer fund of 1.3 billion. But, that hasn't been spent.

I want to be sure that our best days are not behind us, and we are committed to a balanced space program.

When I saw the President's budget, in which Goddard was funded at $324 million below fiscal year 2015, ... you cut them $300 million.