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

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

I don't like doing CRs.

If we do an omnibus and the priorities in there are appropriate, I am certainly willing to consider it.

What we need to do within the FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation is make sure they are adequately funded for all of the upcoming launches.

What we need to do is go through the appropriations process because, as I just described, the world has changed.

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.

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

So who has the authority in orbit?

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

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.

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

This is a very strong and a very bipartisan bill.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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