ms. edwards question. we can focus on the sls and orion limited to exploration program, i want to talk more about the ground infrastructure at the space center which is also undergoing some significant development to support the sol's and orion logic i noticed an work on the bubble logic, qatar, the vehicle assembly building, the launch pad 39 b. under way. what does that ground infrastructure work stand russia to the road with -- progress being made on sls and orion? are the insync so they will be read at the same time? >> again i can do so in the a lot of activity that's going on down in florida. that work is in progress. we completed the review for ground systems and it shows 70% confidence love for the equipment to be read in florida to thwart a launched and i think june 2018. it's on schedule to move forward. dennis johnson finish the work as well. i would stress ioc all these activities have to light a. even if sls is ready, although the earlier underground system isn't fully there. it's still right

ms. edwards. i do agree with you. your comments are certainly well recognized on both sides of the aisle, so thank you for that and we would like to work with you on how we can remedy that. just had a quick question about the international implications of our direction for human spaceflight. the report that ms. edwards referenced from the national academies indicated that if we were to do this astroid redirector nation, we would be not an ally but with the international community, most of which is focused on getting to the moon. namely the lunar surface and then on to mars. and if this misalignment, according to the report, again headed by governor mitch daniels, indicated the misalignment could actually result in us spending a whole lot of money on dead-end technologies rather than actually a publishing the objective of getting to the moon. mr. gerstenmaier, could you address that? >> i would say a global exploration roadmap is the plan that the international partner community has agreed to along with nasa as the pre

ms. edwards. >> thank you, mr. chairman. again, thank you for the testimony. we have all recognized that resources for orion sos programs have been constrained. and i think we can acknowledge as well that flat budgets are not optimal for carrying out major development programs like orion and sos. but i am impressed with how much progress has been made on these programs given these constraints. and as you know, the committee has a goal of having sos and orion operational at the earlier possible date. you indicated that. but you also indicated slippage based on the budget constraint. we're going to be authorizing nasa again -- well, reauthorizing next year. so i want to understand what the additional progress could be made on the sos and orion programs if we were to authorize additional resources. and whether or not the impact on the exploration programs, whether there would be any impact if there were inflationary increases as recommended by the national academies report of 5% increase, say. and would a sustained increase of this kind of magnitude be sufficient

ms. edwards. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for a minute and a half. ms. edwards: thank you, madam speaker, and i thank the gentlelady from new york. i rise in opposition to the rule for consideration of this so-called omnibus bill. among the many troublesome 11th hour additions is a provision that not only allows for another multibillion dollar bank bailout and for taxpayers to be on the hook for that, but gives the keys of the bank to the moneyed special interests by allowing up to $800,000 to be contributed by one person to the democratic and republican party committees. now most americans think there's already too much money in politics, but, oh, no, not house republicans. they're saying open up the spigots to the special interests. instead of passing a clean bill that funds the federal government and avoids another harmful shutdown this congress, these republicans, have chosen to bring the american people a bill that would allow for the negative opinions that they already hold of this congress to go even further. to say the richer you are, the more acc

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