His resignation. This is two hours. Good morning. The committee will come to order. We are here to consider the nomination of Dan Brouillette. I am one who believes that you have done an excellent job as secondincommand to secretary perry. We welcome you back to the committee. It is good to have discussion with you. I want to thank you for all you have done at the department. For your willingness to serve at this point. And to step up in this new and higher capacity. We have our colleagues here today this morning to introduce the deputy area secretary. Texas and louisiana are well represented. Feel very welcome here. By having these gentlemen the two you. We will start with senator cassidy. Followed by senator cruz and senator kennedy. To introduce the deputy area secretary this morning. We do have a full complement here this morning. We welcome all of the good comments. What a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. He is eminently qualified. The United States leads the world in all kin
So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. But its a privilege to represent my fellow
The Committee Shall come to order. Welcome nasa administrator jim bridenstine, and acting associate add in mrer for human exploration and operations Kenneth Bowersox to the subcommittee this morning. Earlier this year nasa commemorated the 50th anniversary of the landing on the moon which remains the single most successful and Famous Mission in nasas history. Just a week before our cjs bill was marked up in sub skmit, nasa submitted a 1. 6 billion Budget Amendment and intended to start the effort to advance the return of humans to the moon by four years. Such little time prevented us from adequately considering the proposal. This hearing will give us an opportunity to obtain more information from nasas regarding its revised plans for returning to the moon. While all of us on this subcommittee would like to send the first woman astronaut into deep space, including to the surface of the moon, we want to do it in a responsible way from the perspective of safety, cost, and likelihood of mi
Jose serrano id like to welcome nasa administrator, jim bryden stein, and acting associate administrator for nasa human exploration and operations ken bowersox to the subcommittee this morning. Earlier this year, nasa commemorated the 50th anniversary of the landing on the moon, which remains the single most successful and Famous Mission and nasas history. Just a week before the cjs bill was marked up in subcommittee, nasa submitted a 1. 6 million 1. 6 billion Budget Amendment that intended to advance our humans to the moon by four years. This prevented us from adequately considering the proposal this hearing will give us an opportunity to obtain more information from nasa regarding the revised plans for returning to the moon. This subcommittee would like to send the first woman astronaut into deep space, including to the surface of the moon. We want to do it in a theonsible way from perspective of safety, cost, and likelihood of mission success. As most of you know, i have been a stro
Id like to welcome nasa administrator, Jim Bridenstine and ken bowersox to the subcommittee this morning. Earlier this year, nasa commemorated the 50th anniversary of the landing on the moon, which remains the single most successful and Famous Mission and nasas history. Just a week before our bill was marked up in subcommittee, nasa submitted a 1. 6 Million Dollar Budget Amendment that intended to advance our humans to the years. This blowup obtained more information from nasa, regarding its plans to return to the moon. Of all of us on the subcommittee, we would like to send the first woman astronaut into the deep space, including to the surface of the moon and we want to do it in a responsible way, from the perspective of safety, cost and likelihood of success. As most of you know, i have been a strong supporter of nasa and we provide nasa more than 22. 3 billion in our house bill. However, i remain extremely concerned about the additional cause to accelerate the mission by four years