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Is House Majority Leader Tom DeLay an asset or a liability for NASA? In the short-term he certainly seems like an asset, particularly given his last-minute goal line stand during the final budget negotiations, threatening to block the omnibus budget bill unless $300 million was added to NASA’s budget, bringing it up to essentially the […] The Space Access Society published an urgent alert late Thursday calling on people to contact their Senators in support of HR 5382. The Society’s Henry Vanderbilt recommends that those who wish to show their support for the bill should call or fax (but not write or email) their Senators by Monday. The Senate is scheduled […] This week’s print edition of Space News has an article with a few interesting noted about HR 5382. According to the article, the bill was initially caught in a hold placed by Sen. John McCain on a number of “late-breaking bills” sent over from the House. McCain then agreed to a request by Sens. Sam […] Space News reported last week in its print edition that an effort to pass legislation to expand NASA’s authority to offer prizes has stalled in the Senate. On November 18 Rep. Sherwood Boehlert introduced HR 5385, which authorizes NASA to establish the Centennial Challenges program and allows it to award prizes as large as $1 […] Yesterday House Majority Leader Tom DeLay visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center to celebrate winning effectively full funding for the agency in FY05, according to the Houston Chronicle and Galveston Daily News. Perhaps the most interesting comment he made suggests that support for the Vision for Space Exploration is not unanimous within the Bush Administration: “The […] Nathan Horsley, a lawyer with a background in space law, has written a detailed analysis of HR 5382. His conclusion: while there are “functional additions” to and “useful clarifications” of existing laws and regulations in the bill, the legislation is more useful “as a public relations or marketing tool than as a functional change to […] One of the banes of the budget process, not just for NASA but other agencies, is the inclusion by some members of Congress of earmarks to aid little-known programs and organizations in their home districts. On NBC’s Meet the Press this morning Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) weighed in against earmarks, using NASA as an example: […] Both the House and the Senate passed the omnibus budget bill, HR 4818, yesterday, with the Senate finally passing the bill a little after midnight. (The bill actually won’t be delivered to the President for a few days because of a last-minute glitch with language in the bill regarding Congressional access to tax returns, which […] The bad news is that the Senate did not take up HR 5382 before adjourning after midnight Saturday. HobbySpace reports that while the bill was track to be handled by the Senate Saturday night, a hold was placed on the bill, although it’s not clear whether this was a simple administrative maneuver or if a […] The House did get around to HR 5382 this afternoon and the bill passed on a roll-call vote, 269-120. The vote fell to some degree among party lines: only two Republicans voted against the bill, Reps. Charles Bass (R-NH) and Don Young (R-AK). (Interestingly, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), the only member to vote against HR […] |
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