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Congressman Tom DeLay’s resignation announcement came at the same time than many of the movers and shakers in the space community were in Colorado Springs for the Space Foundation’s annual National Space Symposium. According to a SPACE.com article, those in attendance heaped praise on DeLay, even those from the other side of the aisle. Take […] The Senate Appropriations Committee approved an FY06 supplemental appropriations bill this week for hurricane relief and military operations. Included in the bill is $35 million for repairs to NASA’s Stennis Space Center, according to an article yesterday in Aerospace Daily. The funding is notable since the Bush Administration had not requested any funding for Stennis […] You want a sure way to wake up in the morning, no caffeine required? Turn on the news and hear that Tom DeLay will resign from Congress by the end of May. The news first broke Monday night with interviews with Time and the Galveston Daily News; a formal announcement will be made today. DeLay […] In Texas, Barbara Ann Radnofsky is a Democratic candidate for the US Senate against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. (“A” candidate since Radnofsky must first win a primary runoff next Tuesday.) Interestingly, she tells the Houston Chronicle that she believes that she can win votes in the Houston area by pointing out a perceived lack of […] The only press coverage of Thursday’s hearing of a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee about the NASA budget request was from Florida Today, which devoted the entire article not to the budget itself but the claim by some members of the committee that “the United States and China are in an unacknowledged space race […] The Capitol Hill newspaper The Hill has a special section today on aerospace, and three of the four essays contributed by members of Congress deal with space issues: Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) argues in support of the Vision for Space Exploration, calling it the beginning of “a new age of human space exploration.” DeLay on […] In an interview with Orlando Sentinel space reporter Michael Cabbage in January, NASA administrator Mike Griffin said he “certainly will not be” campaigning for Congressional candidates this year, as his predecessor, Sean O’Keefe, did (or tried to do) in 2002. However, it appears to be a different story when it comes to simply endorsing candidates. […] Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA), chairman of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee, will receive a “National Champion of Science Award” (yes, that’s the name) this morning in Riverside, California, according to a UC Riverside press release. The award is from The Science Coalition, an organization of “more than 400 member organizations”, primarily universities […] If you missed it, earlier this month the Republican Study Committee released a revised version of its budget proposal, which balances the federal budget by FY2011. Most of what’s here is similar to its previous plans, including the RSC’s desire to cancel “NASA’s Moon/Mars Exploration Initiative”; less well understood is its request to “retire the […] Congressman Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) announced this afternoon that he will not seek reelection this fall. The local newspaper, the Utica Observer-Dispatch, has an early story about his announcement, made at 3 pm in Utica, as well as a copy of his remarks. Regardless of his decision to run or not, Boehlert had to step down […] |
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