Space Politics

On Thursday, the first day of the 110th Congress, the heads of the House and Senate appropriations committees, Rep. David Obey and Sen. Robert Byrd, announced that they were reconciling their subcommittee structures, which had been out of whack the last two years (in part because of a reorganization in the House led by then-majority […]

The National Space Society and ProSpace have announced dates for their next space policy lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill, which will be among the first such citizen space lobbying events of the 110th Congress. The NSS plans to conduct its Space Budget Blitz 2007 on February 11-13, which should be shortly after when the FY2008 […]

The decision earlier this week by the incoming chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations committees to replace the pending FY2007 appropriations bills with a year-long continuing resolution was a setback for NASA, which was looking for a small but critical increase in its budget to support the ramp-up of the exploration program, among other […]

Both houses of Congress passed a continuing budget resolution late last night to keep much of the federal budget, including NASA, funded through February 15. (A Reuters article in particular noted NASA as one of the many agencies included in the stopgap measure; a NASA spokesman said that even without the bill’s passage “The poor […]

According to an AP report, Congressman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), a former chairman of the House Science Committee, is seeking to become the ranking minority member of the committee. Sensenbrenner had served the last six years as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and because of internal term limits would have had to give up the […]