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Space Frontier Act Passes Senate But Fails In The House

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
December 22, 2018
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Space Frontier Act Passes Senate But Fails In The House

Keith’s update: S. 3277 failed passage on the House on a 239 -137 vote under a suspension of the rules wherein debate is limited, no amendments allowed, and a 2/3 majority is required for passage.
Bill Nelson’s last big space bill approved by U.S. Senate, Florida Politics
“Senate Bill 3277, which was introduced in July with Texas Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz as primary sponsor and Nelson and Democratic U.S. Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts as the co-sponsors, was approved unanimously Thursday. It’s closest companion, House Resolution 2809, was approved in the House of Representatives in April, though there are some significant differences. SB 3277 includes a number of provisions, many of them offered by Nelson, which would streamline and clarify the roles played by NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration and other agencies in promoting the commercial space business, and extend and expand NASA’s program to work with such private space companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin at centers such as Kennedy Space Center.”
AIA Comment on Senate Passage of the Space Frontier Act
“This bipartisan bill is a strong statement in support of America’s growing commercial space industry. It would update space transportation regulations and commit to the full use of the International Space Station through 2030 for critical commercial and scientific purposes. We look forward to working with members of Congress next year to get commercial space legislation passed and signed into law, ensuring American space presence and dominance into the future.”

S.3277 – Space Frontier Act of 2018

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5 responses to “Space Frontier Act Passes Senate But Fails In The House”

  1. ThomasLMatula says:
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    Looks like the Democrats in the House killed it.

    • Michael Spencer says:
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      Very nicely phrased, Dr. M. 🙂

    • fcrary says:
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      Any specifics? Did any of the people who voted against it say way? I shifted to getting my morning news from the BBC because they actually bother to report things like that. Most US news sources talk about who is for it and who is against it, with out actually explaining what it is or why they took that position.

      • ThomasLMatula says:
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        Marcia Smith reported 194 Republicans voting for it and only 7 against it, while the vast majority of Democrats voted no. One issue may have been changing the subcommittees responsible for space regulation, but it no clear what other ones were. Under the rules it needed 2/3 of the votes to pass the house which would be 290.

        BTW UPI and AP are still good sources of news that don’t editorialize it.

      • Michael Spencer says:
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        For sure.

        For many years I watched NBC Nightly News (the Big Three are essntiallxt the same). Then I realized that feel-good items stole the last 5+ minutes of those precious 22 minutes that so many Americans watch as sole source.

        And I am thinking: what is happening, for instance, with Brexit, as they approach more deadlines? Or India? Or Venezuela? Brazil?

        Oh! And last night? NBC was yammering on about that hole in the Russian hardware, speculating that it happened on orbit. That would be the story that Keith covered- what? – 4 weeks ago?(And, properly, without speculation, I should add).

        Argh. BBC has a lovely program each morning before PBS’ Morning Edition