Senate Commerce Hearing on Economic Impact of 2013 Government Shutdown, October 2013

The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held a hearing on October 11, 2013 on “The Impacts of the Government Shutdown on Our Economic Security.”  The hearing took place while the U.S. Government was partially shutdown at the beginning of FY2014 because Congress had not passed any of the FY2014 appropriations bills.  Among the witnesses was Marion Blakey, President of the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), and Alan Leshner, Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).   SpacePolicyOnline.com published a summary of the hearing on October 12, 2013, under the title “Nelson Tells Blakey:  Put a Fire Under Your Executives.”