Bill Nelson

America can and should be the clear world leader of international space exploration both in LEO and beyond.

I called for a long-term strategy to break this energy dependence from Russia.

The United States should never have to buy tickets to space.

But if the geopolitics suddenly changed, that it was important to the United States to get back to the surface of the Moon before, say, the Chinese would with humans, if that were the case, we'd already have a lot of the technologies…

I applaud Mr. Gerstenmaier and the Space Station Program Office, led by Mike Suffredini, for allowing a private company to attempt this new role.

Strong bipartisan leadership is needed to sustain the program across administrations otherwise election-cycle changes could cause confusion and waste.

What Senator Rubio was talking about, I think, under the surface there's a lot of excitement on station.

Another example, I think, is the Russian engine, RD-180. It creates temperatures and pressures because of some alloys that they are very, very good at.

As a matter of fact, they had a big rocket and it blew up on the pad.

The biggest impact is that a generation of people were lost who actually knew how to engage in this kind of cooperation.

Once you start putting Americans on American rockets, the interest in this country is going to accelerate.

Good morning. Thank you all for coming. We have held, in this committee, a number of hearings on space exploration.

In the lessons learned from the Gulf oil spill, as applied to the Houston ship channel you just named--

Take, for example, in the early part of the spill, BP said that they were losing some minimal amount of oil 5,000 feet below the surface.

Lord forbid that we should have another one of these. But if you're the Admiral in charge, which I assume you would be, if it's on your watch I think one of the major lessons learned from the BP oil spill that we didn't have a military…

Do you, looking back, believe that you had the military chain of command so that an order could be given and it would be carried out by all parties?

How did you get a unity of effort with BP petroleum when they had so much at interest that was contrary to your interests leading the effort?

You are going to have to get into that culture.

Tomorrow, you are going to have to formally respond to NHTSA about what the company did and did not know.

I suspect that Cobalt drivers would not take comfort in that advice, knowing what has come up.

The Center for Auto Safety has suggested that they think this defect may have caused over 300 deaths.

Well, two of the most frequent complaints that we get are cost and the blackouts.

FRA supports the 'Military Surviving Equity Act' (H.R. 32) sponsored by Representative Joe Wilson (SC) and its Senate companion bill (S. 734) sponsored by Senator Bill Nelson (FL)

This is a great example of CMS using one of the Affordable Care Act's anti-fraud tools, and I applaud CMS for finally using this authority.

It is clear that we cannot just arrest our way out of the problem of this magnitude.