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A correspondent pointed out to me earlier this week an interesting piece of legislation. HR 5336, the Space and Aeronautics Prize Act, was introduced by Rep Rohrabacher last month, just before Congress adjourned for the election. The bill calls for a “National Endowment for Space and Aeronautics” that would run prize competitions “that have the […] An Aviation Daily article Thursday notes (near the end) that there are some changes in store for the Senate Commerce Committee. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the current chairman, is leaving and will be replaced by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK). That could result in changes in who chairs the subcommittees, although there was nothing in the […] Another Congressman with space ties who won reelection last night is Rep. Ken Calvert (R-CA). Calvert told the Riverside Press-Enterprise that he hopes to take over from Rep. Dana Rohrabacher as chairman of the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee, saying that such a job “would be an extraordinary challenge.” Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), chairman of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee, has easily won reelection, beating his Democratic challenger by a 2-1 margin. However, Nick Lampson (D-TX), the ranking minority member of that subcommittee, lost his reelection bid to his Republican challenger, Ted Poe. Lampson was one of the staunchest pro-space Democrats […] A few key space-related House figures have easily won reelection. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), chairman of the House Science Committee, has won reelection, as has the ranking Democrat on that committee, Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN). Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX), the House Majority Leader whose district includes NASA JSC, has also won reelection despite a surprisingly […] A couple more Senate races with space implications are going as expected: Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) are projected to win reelection. McCain is chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and Brownback is chair of that committee’s Science, Technology, and Space subcommittee. Most of the major networks have projected that Sens. Kit Bond (R-MO) and Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) have won reelection. Mikulski, as previously discussed, has been a strong supporter of NASA in Congress, and is also the ranking minority member of the VA-HUD subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which has jurisdiction over NASA. Bond is […] A Florida Today article Sunday suggests that uncertainty about the outcome of the Presidential election, and the resulting effect on space policy, has frozen efforts to develop a series of robotic lunar missions that would be forerunners of eventual human missions: “They are not going to go forward with the vision until they see how […] In a New York Times article a few days ago about Congressman Anthony Weiner’s (D-NY) reelection campaign—which is designed as much to position Weiner to run for mayor of New York next year as to return to Congress—aides to current mayor Michael Bloomberg referred to Weiner’s past interest in funding asteroid research when criticizing ads […] In a Huntsville Times article Wednesday, Congressman Bud Cramer (D-AL) said opposition to funding the Vision for Space Exploration comes from both sides of the aisle: Cramer said he and other NASA supporters in Congress are pushing to approve the money, but are fighting liberal Democrats who want more money for social programs and conservative […] |
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