A quick reminder that the full House Science Committee will be holding a hearing on Thursday at 10am on “NASA’s Science Mission Directorate: Impacts of the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget Proposal”. (See this earlier post for the witness list.) Given all the attention focused on planned cutbacks in NASA’s science program, this should be an interesting hearing.
This is also the second full committee hearing devoted to NASA in two weeks; the committee held a February 16 hearing on the NASA budget in general. By contrast, the House Science Committee’s counterpart in the Senate, the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, has yet to schedule any hearings on NASA, either by the full committee or the Science and Space subcommittee. (There is a hearing about the NPOESS weather satellite system scheduled for March 30; that will be conducted by Disaster Prevention and Prediction subcommittee.) Admittedly the commerce committee has oversight over a much broader range of issues; its recent hearings have ranged from “net neutrality” to port security. One wonders when—or if—the committee will take up the issues their House colleagues are currently grappling with.
