Ben Nelson: “No way am I going to support a bill that does not have this restrictive abortion language in it that the House bill has.”

I firmly agree with the importance of oversight because we are in a government-owned/contractor-operated situation, there are substantial liabilities.

How are we going to make it work? How are we going to, over a longer strategy, make the dollars work to meet the obligations we've undertaken?

Being able to bounce back from some sort of a lights-out situation is critically important.

There is undoubtedly a foundational level of space capability that regardless of force structure size in DOD, regardless of almost any other decisions made from a budget perspective, that space capability has to continue.