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  1. Today’s picture-perfect launch of the new experimental Ares rocket shows America remains the leader in science and technology.
  2. Weather’s interfered with new Ares rocket launch. But countdown finally resumed at four minutes. Try to get to a TV or http://bit.ly/IAL4!
  3. Well, weather didn’t cooperate. Ares launch scrubbed for today. Maybe go for tomorrow, or the next day?
  4. Weather has stalled Ares launch, stay tuned.
  5. The future of America’s space program is 3 minutes away from launch.
  6. Going to make sure he knows why we need to get Jacksonville’s Mayport ready for a nuclear carrier.
  7. About to head down to Florida with Obama, we’ll be in Jacksonville meeting with service men and women then on to Miami.
  8. I will continue to fight to get NASA funding for the next generation of human spaceflight. More on what we need to do http://bit.ly/1Q1aG9
  9. Our space program is being asked to pursue goals without the necessary resources, or so says the Augustine Commission http://bit.ly/UsU09
  10. Why care if we explore space? At 2:30 today we’ll “make the case for space” in a hearing that’s online at http://tinyurl.com/yz2f5tz
  11. Just voted for the Finance Committee’s health-care bill, I’ll be on CNN about it just after 3 p.m.
  12. Extraordinary person. Six adopted children. Truly an Angel. Was proud to nominate her for Angels in Adoption http://www.angelsinadoption...
  13. On a break from the cmte health care debate to meet Barbara Kadzis, you may remember her from Extreme Makeover: Home Edition in Tally.
  14. Americans who like their health coverage should be able to keep it. And we need to make coverage affordable for those who don’t have it.
  15. Health-insurance exchanges will help the nearly one-in-four Floridians who don’t have or cannot get affordable health insurance.
  16. Just read excerpts from President’s speech for tonight. I’m glad the president is proposing insurance exchanges.
  17. Grace and I came to know Ted and Vicki in his later years in the Senate, and we count it a privilege to have known him.
  18. Whatever your political views, his lion-like conviction was respected. It was that conviction that gave a voice to the powerless.
  19. Most Americans cannot even remember a time without Ted Kennedy.
  20. I look forward to having the same bipartisan working relationship with his successor.