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The Citizen, a newspaper that serves the Houston suburbs around the Johnson Space Center, has an article Wednesday about Richard Morrison, the Democrat running against Rep. Tom DeLay in Texas’s 22nd Congressional District. Morrison, speaking to a gathering of aerospace workers, is critical of the lack of funding for the Vision for Space Exploration the […] One of the concerns about the difficulties recently encountered with HR 3752 (see the previous post as well as an article I wrote for The Space Review for more details) is that the legislation also includes an extension of the current launch indemnification regime that is of great interest to existing launch providers. This system […] That’s the summary of Jim Muncy’s presentation Friday morning at the Space Frontier Conference about the status of HR 3752. According to Muncy, a couple of weeks ago Senate staffers sent proposed changes to the House for HR 3752 and those changes “were an abomination”. The Senate, he felt, had the best of intentions by […] Over at Transterrestrial Musings Rand Simberg has posted a copy of an email going around about a significant—and potentially very detrimental—change to HR 3752 being contemplated by staffers in the Senate. I don’t have any time to comment on this now (I have to catch a flight), but I will note that even if the […] The House of Representatives approved by voice vote Wednesday night a resolution congratulating Mojave Aerospace Ventures for winning the Ansari X Prize. (The text of the resolution, H. Res. 820, was not yet available online as of Thursday afternoon.) The House Science Committee press release (via SpaceRef.com) includes comments from several people, including Rep. Dana […] The AIAA issued a legislative alert to its members on Tuesday, asking them to contact their senators to ask them to support HR 3752. The alert ties the legislation to SpaceShipOne and its claim to the Ansari X Prize: “If passed, this legislation will allow entrepreneurs to take advantage of this tremendous accomplishment.” However, time […] During an executive session Wednesday morning, the Senate Commerce Committee marked up and approved S.2541, the NASA Authorization Act of 2004. The bill was approved on a voice vote after a short discussion and adoption of a few amendments. There was some heated discussion about one amendment, proposed by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), but listening […] As you may have already read, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted Tuesday to increase NASA’s budget by about $200 million over the President’s request, for a total of $16.4 billion. However, the catch is that $800 million of that is in the form of emergency funding (and thus not subject to budget caps) devoted exclusively […] The Senate Appropriations Committee has scheduled a markup session for this afternoon (2:30 pm, Hart 216) to go over the VA-HUD-independent agencies appropriations bill. They’re also considering an appropriations bill for DC; they didn’t announce which they’ll consider first. You should be able to listen to an audio webcast of the hearing at CapitolHearings.org. As […] A few items of note about the efforts to get NASA’s budget approved in Congress: Writing for UPI, Frank Sietzen describes the current budget situation with a baseball analogy, with the game tied in the bottom of the 8th inning and Congress at bat. He expects the Senate to take up the VA-HUD-independent agencies bill […] |
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