Appropriations Hearings on Department of Commerce FY2015 Budget Request, April 2014
The House and Senate Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations subcommittees held hearings on the FY2015 budget request for the Department of Commerce on April 9 and April 10, 2014, respectively. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker testified about the full range of Commerce responsibilities, including satellite programs at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Satellites were not a major topic at the House hearing, but in the Senate, questions were raised about whether two of those programs — COSMIC-2 and SIDAR — were needed. SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of both hearings on April 14, 2014.