If we could just take a moment of silence and pray for not only those that were murdered but also for their families.
Steven Palazzo
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Steven M. Palazzo is a Republican politician from Mississippi who served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2023. During his tenure, he represented Mississippi's 4th congressional district and was known for his focus on military and veterans' issues, as well as economic development in his state. Palazzo served on several committees, including the House Committee on Armed Services, where he advocated for defense and military readiness. He was also involved in efforts to support the local economy and job creation in Mississippi.
By scaling back investments in aerospace R&D, we risk putting future generations of Americans at risk.
No other country has the technical expertise or industrial base to produce anything similar to SLS or Orion, making it all the more compelling to ensure that these programs continue without interruption.
I look forward to hearing from our experts about their plans to develop a profitable and sustainable business.
I encourage industry to work closely with the FAA so that they will be able to draft effective regulations in 2015, and diminish the chance that these regulations will stifle the industry.
I raise a point of order against section 8121 of the bill. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman will state his point of order.
I would like to begin by thanking our witnesses for taking time from their busy schedules to appear before us this morning and share their insight about the role NASA has played in spurring technologies that yield economic growth and keep…
What missions is NASA going to have to reduce their funding for or eliminate such as earth sciences or----
Is it prudent that the government should continue to assume greater and greater exposure under this shared-risk regime?
You recommended a five-year extension of the U.S. liability risk-sharing regime.
There are two things when I talk to manufacturers. There are two things they talk about: taxation and regulation.
If I had, you know, a billion dollars and I was going to invest in a company and they had internal control problems, fiscal problems, I would want them to clean those problems up before I took that kind of an American investment.
I would much rather spend $1 billion on roads and bridges or possibly even $1 billion into the NASA Heavy Lift program.
Drones are going to really--you got the radical left in this country who decided that having a drone in the air is more of a threat to their privacy than to having a helicopter pilot in the air in a helicopter.
I don't think we would have a lack of money if we perhaps weren't spending $3 billion a year on a huge, huge rocket that may never go into service.
Let me just note, depreciation schedules are really important for innovation, and perhaps even more important than a direct subsidy to a specific company for a specific research job.
The growth of overseas competition occurs at a time when NASA's aeronautics R&D funding is on the decline.
If our domestic industry is to maintain leadership in the years ahead, it's essential that research and development continue.
Aeronautics research and development, and the technologies they spin off, are critical to our national security.





