Comments on: Apollo 11, the President, and Barney http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apollo-11-the-president-and-barney Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Anonymous http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-987 Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:12:25 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-987 Some quick research into the history of presidential vetoes and NASA helps a bit. Reagan vetoed a NASA bill because it required him to create a National Space Council that he did not want.

Also, if you go to Google News and do a search under “Bush veto” you will discover that although Bush has not vetoed any bills before, he has threatened to do so on a number of occasions and been successful.

This is a way of notifying both the Senate and the resulting conference committee that the administration doesn’t like certain things about the budget so far. It causes them to pay attention.

]]> By: Brian Berger http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-986 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 23:17:15 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-986 Just to clarify a point of confusion on this matter, Bolton’s letter to Chairman Young is a pro forma veto threat. The president doesn’t pick up the phone and say, “I’m going to veto.” The head of OMB sends a letter that says we will have no choice but to recommend a veto if you don’t address our concerns. It gives the president some cover, but the message to appropriators is clear. But as Jeff rightly points out, it’s unlikely this issue will ever come down to a veto. And not because Bush isn’t serious (who knows?) or because NASA’s budget is part of a $93 billion spending package that also funds military veterans’ benefits, federal housing programs, and environmental protection. What makes the veto threat rather hollow is that the VA-HUD bill will almost certainly be folded into an omnibus bill. Vetoing the omnibus would be tantamount to holding up funding for nearly the entire federal government. Would Bush risk shutting down the federal government over NASA cuts?

]]> By: Harold LaValley http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-985 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 21:09:14 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-985 This would send a message if Bush does Veto the bill to Congress

]]> By: Perry A. Noriega http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-984 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:11:01 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-984 It would be very interesting if President Bush did indeed veto this bill, and even more interesting if the main reason was it’s cuts to his Vision for Space. I don’t know it will be the reason for his veto, but it would give heart to many that space policy and programs was being treated with the importance and respect it is long overdue.

Rand Simberg tells us it will be the first veto of his presidency, and if true, may be even more significant for space policy and programs affecting what is done and how it’s done on Capitol Hill, and inside the Beltway too. I look forward to further developments.

]]> By: John Malkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-983 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:24:29 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-983 Well it doesn’t same some, it just says the presidents senior advisors.. but nobody said that the President said it or he would if it came down to the wire. This is the first word from anybody as far as I know on a position from the White House. I expect that this will continue for several months.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-982 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:19:51 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-982 If he vetoes this bill, it will be the first one in his presidency.

]]> By: Bill White http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-981 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 18:10:05 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-981 Read more carefully. . .

Josh Bolton says the cuts are unaceptable and might warrant some senior advisors recommending a veto.

Ever play the game “telephone?”

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-980 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:38:41 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-980 “The White House has threatened to veto a spending bill that would deny NASA the funding it is counting on to get started on a new space exploration agenda next year.”

Interesting. Has this White House vetoed any bills at all?

]]> By: John Malkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-979 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:29:26 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-979 Whitehouse speaks: The White House has threatened to veto a spending bill that would deny NASA the funding it is counting on to get started on a new space exploration agenda next year

See story at Space.com
http://www.space.com/news/bush_veto_040723.html

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/07/22/apollo-11-the-president-and-barney/#comment-978 Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:23:38 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=256#comment-978 I suspect that Karl Rove has decided that this isn’t a winner during the campaign. It doesn’t indicate that the president has lost interest, but it probably does indicate that he doesn’t intend to follow through until after he’s reelected.

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