Gary Peters: “We just had to keep stressing how important it is to come together and fix something that simply should never have been…”

Commercial satellites are essential to our national security, our economy, and the daily lives of Americans, so we must ensure they are not vulnerable to attacks from cybercriminals and foreign adversaries.

We had a lot of members of Congress that were around the country that were saying, ‘Yeah, let them go bankrupt. You know, that’s okay. That’s capitalism, if they go under, that’s it.’ And I’m like, ‘No, you can’t have a manufacturing…

The newly renovated Pontiac Oaks Park is a prime example of what’s possible when federal, state, and local officials work together to achieve a common goal.

It now has state of the art equipment there to train crews on how to clean up oil spills, so we don’t have to wait two weeks for a submersible. It can be there like in an hour and a half, it’s very close. We’re gaining the expertise there…