Ted Cruz

The vision that Chairman Cruz has set for these hearings is one of the government opening the space frontier to commerce and settlement by private citizens.

U.S. space businesses have property rights in extracted resources.

I think the Executive certainly has the authority to recognize international law obligations and to make discretionary decisions consistent with those obligations.

It's time for Congress finally to address the relationship between government and private sector under Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty.

Amen and Hallelujah.

We're going to work together to make sure the agency gets what it needs so that we can keep building this momentum.

NASA is not partisan. NASA is nonpartisan.

The budget that was just submitted by the President just today--it would cut a half a billion dollars from NASA.

The Outer Space Treaty has worked well for 50 years.

The Outer Space Treaty was a Faustian compromise with the USSR.

Thank you, Senator Markey.

Letter dated May 22, 2017 to Hon. Ted Cruz and Hon. Edward Markey from Arthur M. Dula, Trustee, and J. Buckner Hightower, Trustee, Heinlein Prize Trust.

What are the most vital steps necessary to protect our assets in space, to prevent the space architecture from being taken down?

But we do have--it is correct that North Korea has satellites orbiting right now?

What vulnerability would we have to a nuclear device in a satellite? What could be the potential harms to the Homeland if a nuclear device were detonated in orbit?

In my view, that decision was lawless, it was a power-grab from the FCC, and it was profoundly dangerous for a Federal regulatory agency to assert the authority to regulate pricing in terms of service on the Internet.

Ted Cruz was right when he said --

Congress needs to continue to work to ensure that investment and innovation within the commercial space sector isn't chilled by obsolete regulations.

This subcommittee has been remarkable, under a Democratic Senate and Republican Senate, for being able to produce bipartisan legislation.

America must expand commerce and, ultimately, settlement into space, and we must do it first.

We need to ensure that our space policy is driven by innovation and competition.

I look forward to continuing to work in the same strong bipartisan manner that this subcommittee has always worked.

It's important that Congress evaluate how that Treaty, enacted 50 years ago, will impact new and innovative activity within space.

In your assessment, short of military action, how much positive impact could China have in reining in North Korean hostilities?

I think the importance of the Asia-Pacific region has been well-highlighted by this testimony and also by the well-justified public focus on the threat of North Korea.