Comments on: Rep. Cramer to retire http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rep-cramer-to-retire 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: Kevin Parkin http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-42690 Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:08:59 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-42690 I agree with Rand.

]]> By: Rand Simberg http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-41617 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:36:36 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-41617 It is too bad, for the more seniority the members who represent NASA centers have, the better for the space program.

No, the better for NASA budgets. The size of NASA budgets doesn’t correlate (or perhaps it correlates negatively) with the quality of the space program.

]]> By: J.B. http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-41605 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:13:34 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-41605 The member of Congress from Florida is Weldon. It is too bad, for the more seniority the members who represent NASA centers have, the better for the space program.

]]> By: Dennis Wingo http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-41544 Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:02:00 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-41544 Cramer was much more interested in supporting Redstone arsenal as the number of jobs is several times higher than for NASA.

]]> By: Jonathan Goff http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-41518 Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:06:40 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/03/14/rep-cramer-to-retire/#comment-41518 So, for a someone who’s more of a policy junky than a politics junky, how many congresspeople with NASA centers in their district are still in positions of power wrt appropriations? Wasn’t there a congressperson from Florida that had been one of NASA’s other big champions that announced he wasn’t seeking reelection either? Any thoughts on how this will impact the funding of NASA (as well as the “political constraints” in which it operates)?

~Jon

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