Political Quotes

“I thank the chairman of the Science Committee for yielding and for his strong leadership on working this bill through regular order so that all of the amendments that we have made, all the Members have had their voices heard in this bill. Mr. Chairman, I rise to oppose the amendment of the gentlewoman from Maryland. The language she is proposing to insert into our House bill is authored by Senator Cruz of Texas, and it does have bipartisan support with Senator Nelson of Florida. But there are provisions that we got included because of the open process that we went through that are not included in that bill. I would like to just run through a few of those that I, myself, got included into this bill, starting with section 110, which was an amendment I offered at markup that will require a GAO report to capture the role of space support vehicles--training vehicles, if you will--in the commercial space industry; regulatory and statutory barriers to the services these vehicles offer and recommendations for updates that will address these barriers. This is critically important in my neck of the woods. In the State of Oklahoma, we have a spaceport at Burns Flat. There are businesses there that are very interested in doing training for commercial crew and commercial spaceflight participants. This was a provision of the bill that went through an open process. It was an amendment that was accepted in a very bipartisan way.…”