Senate Approps to Markup NASA, NOAA Bill This Afternoon; House Approps on Thursday
As the Senate Appropriations Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) subcommittee prepares to mark up the FY2013 bill that funds NASA and NOAA later this afternoon, its House counterpart will mark up its version of the bill on Thursday.
The Senate markup, scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm ET in 192 Dirksen, comes just hours after a spectacular flyover of the Nation’s capital by the space shuttle Discovery enroute to the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport. Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), who chairs the Senate CJS subcommittee, tweeted as Discovery, atop a shuttle carrier aircraft, flew past the Capitol that she is “Proud 2 support our space program & American ingenuity.” Earlier she tweeted that though the space shuttle is retired “our mission in space will sail on, supporting discovery, innovation, American ingenuity & jobs.” The ranking member of the subcommittee, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX), tweeted “Sad to see Discovery retire as it flies over DC. America needs a space program we can believe in again. Human space flight is too important!”
The House CJS subcommittee will hold its markup at 9:30 am on Thursday, April 19, in H-140 Capitol. No tweets about the space program from its chairman, Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), were evident, but ranking member Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) tweeted that “America’s shuttle program and America’s leadership in space was not accomplished on the cheap. A great nation must invest in science & tech.”
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