Jim Bridenstine

I don't like doing CRs.

I would request that this subcommittee appropriate $10 million for Air Force weather service.

We need to fund the enterprise ground services program that I hope will be in the President's budget request.

The reason we need, in my estimation, a commercial purchase of data for weather for the Department of Defense is threefold.

I have five specific requests that I will get right into.

I fully agree with this, and if we can get that kind of certainty that creates the agencies from abstaining from those kind of activities on these non-traditional space activities, I fully support it.

The need to adopt a bill is equally driven by industry demand for regulatory clarity.

So who has the authority in orbit?

So when you talk about a robot mining an asteroid far away, that in my opinion probably doesn't need any regulation.

I've heard Dr. Schmitt and Lieutenant General Stafford talk about the geopolitical issues here, the fact that there is a soft power element here.

While we all want to go to the Moon, and certainly with my friend from Colorado, Mr. Perlmutter, 2033, great goal; I think it ought to be 2032.

Serving on this Committee is a high privilege, especially because we have the opportunity to discuss things like this with this amazing panel.

I believe there will come a time when there will be zero deaths from tornadoes. I think this bill will help us implement the necessary steps to get there. I once again thank my colleagues on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee for…

This bill is intended to engender growth in commercial space activity that will be unlike any we have seen.

I wanted to thank my friend from Colorado, Ed Perlmutter, because he provided a lot of great input.

As the author of Title II of the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act of 2015, along with my good friend from Colorado, Ed Perlmutter, I have been committed to fixing this issue for many years.

This bill actually improves the national security of the United States.

The message Congress is trying to send is, as the Chairman said, that America is open for business, especially in space.

We need a single authority.

This bill will engender a growth in commercial space activity that we have not yet seen in the United States of America.

We are sending a clear message that American innovation will lead the world.

I am proud to support the bill and look forward to favorably reporting it out of the Science Committee.

This is a very strong and bipartisan bill, which was very important for me that we make sure this bill, and space, remained bipartisan.

This is a very strong and a very bipartisan bill.

I just wanted to directly respond to something that my good friend, Mr. Perlmutter from Colorado, said...