Live coverage here on cspan. Needless to say, our committee has been working very diligently on a lot of transformational policy. While were waiting for our colleague here, i think ill thank senator wicker again for his work on the chips and p science act. I think people may not remember but this committee i dont know how many amendments we processed. Sen. Cantwell ity know it was in the hundreds. It might have been in the 300s. But i definitely believe that that kind of regular order process was good for the institutioned good for institution, good for the debate about science, and hopefully people will continue in todays hearing to understand that and understand much of the debate that maybe wasnt as clear in a big public perspective as it was to all of us who were working behind the scenes daily to try to figure this policy out. Ok, well go ahead and get started and when my colleague gets here, hopefully hell be here soon, we will let him make his opening statement. But welcome, sec
Live coverage here on cspan. Needless to say, our committee has been working very diligently on a lot of transformational policy. While were waiting for our colleague here, i think ill thank senator wicker again for his work on the chips and p science act. I think people may not remember but this committee i dont know how many amendments we processed. Sen. Cantwell ity know it was in the hundreds. It might have been in the 300s. But i definitely believe that that kind of regular order process was good for the institutioned good for institution, good for the debate about science, and hopefully people will continue in todays hearing to understand that and understand much of the debate that maybe wasnt as clear in a big public perspective as it was to all of us who were working behind the scenes daily to try to figure this policy out. Ok, well go ahead and get started and when my colleague gets here, hopefully hell be here soon, we will let him make his opening statement. But welcome, sec
Broadband access. The hearing runs two hours. Two hours and 40 minutes. [bangs gavel] good afternoon. The Senate Commerce committee will come to order. I thank my colleagues, many have been in this room for many hours already today doing double duty on both an aviation hearing, and now, a very important conversation about the implementation of the chips and science act which we are committing a pretty big role in. Less to say, our community has been very diligently working on a lot of transformational policy. While were waiting for our colleague here, i think i will thank senator wicker again for his work on chips and science act. I think people may not remember, but this committee, i dont know how many amendments we processed. It was in the hundreds, it might have been in the 300s, but i definitely believe that the regular process was good for the institution, good for the debate about science, and hopefully people will continue in todays hearing to understand that, to understand much
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] id like to reconvene the committee. Thank you for indulging us while we had to cast nine votes mr. Administrator, so thank you. Good to see you on the floor. I hope that it brought back good old memories. Okay. Well, we are going to resume the fiveth minutes of questioning by our members, and lets see. The gentleman from new york you are first for five minutes of questioning. Thank you. Thank the chair and Ranking Member for this important hearing today and to the administrator for thehe work you do to ensure the success of the worlds preeminent civil space agency and your leadership that you provide. In my district the Capital Region i am deeply proud of the Critical Research and development being done at worldclass academic institutions such as polytechnic institute. Particularly thinking about the rmd and the funding for the biological and physical Science Division within nasas Science Mission directorate. The Division Funding prov
American taxpayers are going overseas. They should be going into america. I totally disagree. I would like to reconvene the sst committee. Thank you for indulging us while we had to cast votes, mr. Administrator. Thank you. It was good to see you on the floor too. I hope that brought back good memories. Okay. We are going to resume our five minutes of questioning by our members. Lets see the gentleman from new york, your first for five minutes of questioning. I think the chair and the Ranking Member for this important hearing today. Take you to administrator nelson for the work you do to ensure the success of the worlds preeminent civil space agency and your awesome leadership that you provide. In new yorks capital region, i am deeply proud of the Critical Research and Tech Development being done at worldclass economic and petitions such as the technical institute. I particularly looking at the r d that relies on funding from the biological and physical Science Division within Nasa Sci