Most of the major networks have projected that Sens. Kit Bond (R-MO) and Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) have won reelection. Mikulski, as previously discussed, has been a strong supporter of NASA in Congress, and is also the ranking minority member of the VA-HUD subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which has jurisdiction over NASA. Bond is the chairman of that committee. (Of course, depending on how the overall election turns out, those roles could switch.) Neither result is a surprise.
