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Space Commerce Legislation Cracks Along Partisan Lines

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
May 21, 2015
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Space Commerce Legislation Cracks Along Partisan Lines

McCarthy-Smith SPACE Act Passes with Broad Bipartisan Support, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
“House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) today joined House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) in praising passage of H.R. 2262, the Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Act of 2015 or SPACE Act. Almost 50 Democrats joined Republicans to pass the bill with broad bipartisan support, 284-133.”
House Passes Commercial Space Industry Wish List – Misses Opportunity to Pass Bill that Could Become Law, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Democrats
“Today the House passed H.R. 2262, the SPACE Act of 2015. The bill takes a fundamentally unbalanced approach to the issues facing the commercial space launch industry. Moving far beyond addressing the legitimate needs of the industry, the bill is heavily skewed towards industry’s desires. .. Congresswoman Edwards said, “Pursuing House passage of a bill that is going nowhere in the Senate seems to me to be the ultimate exercise in futility, and one that does a real disservice to the commercial space launch industry that we all are trying to help succeed. But we don’t have to go down that path.”
Pro-Commercial Space Bills Approved in Committee, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Congress Can Help the Commercial Launch Industry This Week if We’re All Willing to Work Together, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Democrats
Hultgren: SPACE Act Facilitates Pro-Growth Environment for Commercial Space Sector (with video)
The Facts Behind SPACE Act, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Chairman Smith Speaks in Support of SPACE Act (Remarks), House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
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8 responses to “Space Commerce Legislation Cracks Along Partisan Lines”

  1. Michael Spencer says:
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    “We have legislation that can become law if my Republican colleagues will join with House Democrats”

    That’s gonna happen. Right.

    • Ben Russell-Gough says:
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      Depends on how the legislation is termed. The House Republicans are full of sound and fire but it doesn’t always affect their voting patterns.

    • GuessWho says:
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      “We have legislation that can become law if the Democrat minority will join with House Republicans”

      – There, fixed that for you. Now it has a chance.

  2. mfwright says:
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    How are we gonna get to LEO and beyond if we can’t even talk between the Senate, House, and White House?

  3. Andrew_M_Swallow says:
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    If this amendment gets into the act will NASA be banned from testing the carbon dioxide removal part of the spacecraft’s life support?

    Amendment 10 introduced by Steve King (IA) of the Republican Party which “Bans any report or study required by this Act from studying the production or effects of carbon dioxide.”

    I know he is basically trying to cover up global warming, as shown by this years snow in Texas, but laws can have unintended side effects. CO2 is a poison gas which is why we breath it out.