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When the Congress takes up the FY 2006 budget proposal due to be released today, it’s still uncertain what subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee will deal with NASA’s budget. As previously noted, the House is considering a proposal, backed by majority leader Tom DeLay, that would eliminate three of the existing 13 appropriations subcommittees, […] Wednesday’s House Science Committee hearing about the options for Hubble was rather interesting: there was no consensus among the members regarding whether and how Hubble should be serviced. Moreover, there was a fair amount of sparring among the witnesses regarding the viability of some options; it was all polite, but they made it clear when […] Reader John Malkin points out that NASA’s Office of Legislative Affairs has updated its list of upcoming hearings, which will focus on the FY2006 budget proposal and the future of the Hubble Space Telescope. The House Science Committee has planned a “FY06 Posture Hearing” about the NASA budget on February 17, while the Senate Commerce […] The House Science Committee announced this week that, as expected, Ken Calvert (R-CA) will be the new chairman of the Space and Aeronautics subcommittee. Calvert replaces Dana Rohrabacher, who had to step down because of term limits. The Democrats have yet to name a ranking minority member of the subcommittee; Nick Lampson, who previously held […] While the House is grappling with a potential reorganization of appropriations subcommittees, the Senate Commerce Committee has quietly completed a reorganization of its own. Of note is that the former “Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space” is now the “Subcommittee on Science and Space”; technology gets its own subcommittee where it is coupled with “innovation […] Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX) announced Tuesday that she has introduced legislation to establish memorials to the shuttle Columbia tragedy in four Texas towns. The memorials would be part of the National Park System, and the Secretary of the Interior would have the option to select additional memorial sites if desired. Hutchison introduced similar legislation […] The full House Science Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday morning (10am, Rayburn 2318) on “Options for Hubble Science”. The witness list currently stands as follows: Dr. Lou Lanzerotti, Chair, Committee on the Assessment of Options for Extending the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope, National Academy of Sciences; Dr. Steve Beckwith, Director, […] CongressDaily (via GovExec.com) offers some more details Friday about a potential reorganization of the House appropriations subcommittees. The report confirms that the VA-HUD subcommittee, which includes NASA, would be eliminated under the DeLay/Lewis plan, with NASA and NSF being reassigned to the Energy subcommittee. This would have the effect of making NASA a much bigger […] One of the most common complaints by space advocates is that, in the House and Senate appropriations committees, NASA is placed in the same subcommittee as the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, as well as independent agencies like the NSF and EPA. (Not to mention the American Battle Monuments Commission.) NASA, […] Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-MD), whose district includes NASA Goddard, issued a press release Monday about the possibility of no funding for a Hubble repair mission in the FY06 budget. Hoyer said he was “very concerned” about those reports, adding that “I will fight to ensure that a new servicing mission is adequately funded and supported.” […] |
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