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:: Press Releases ::(October 31, 2006) Udall Hails Hubble Servicing Mission Decision (October 3, 2006) Science Democrats Congratulate Nobel Physics Prize Winners :: Correspondences ::Letters From: (October 6, 2005) NASA Administrator Griffin Responds to Gordon Letter on the Use of Exceptions in the Iran Nonproliferation Act (July 12, 2005) NASA Administrator Griffin Proposes Amending the Iran Nonproliferation Act Letters To: (August 29, 2006) Letter to NASA Administrator Concerning NASA Advisory Council (February 16, 2006) Letter to NASA Administrator on Assuring Free and Open Scientific Communication :: Speeches ::(June 7, 2006) Prepared Testimony by Rep. Mark Udall Presented to Aerospace States Association "Hearing" on National Aeronautics Policy (February 9, 2006) Prepared Remarks by the Hon. Mark Udall for the Third Annual U.S. Commercial Remote Sensing Conference :: Legislation ::(August 2, 2006) Legislative Reports - 109th Congress (July 22, 2005) NASA Authorization Act of 2005 :: Op-Eds ::(December 16, 2003) Safety of Space Station Demands Independent Probe [Jackson Lee] :: Events ::(October 25, 2005) Mars Science Briefing [Mr. Gordon, Mr. Udall] :: Requested Reports ::(July 17, 2006) [GAO] NASA: Long-Term Commitment to and Investment in Space Exploration Requires More Knowledge (July 14, 2006) [GAO] NASA'S JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE: Knowledge-Based Acquisition Approach Key to Addressing Program Challenges
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Space & Aeronautics News
Press Release :: May 11, 2006
Gordon, Udall Ask Appropriators to Match NASA Authorization, Protect Science and Aeronautics Programs
In a letter this week to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice, and Commerce, Science Committee Democratic leaders urged appropriators to increase NASA’s FY07 funding level as recommended in the NASA Authorization Act of 2005.
Without such augmentation, Democrats cautioned that NASA’s science and aeronautics programs - as well as other important agency R&D efforts - are at risk.
Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D-TN) and Space Subcommittee Ranking Member Rep. Mark Udall (D-CO) wrote, "NASA’s FY 2007 budget request makes unacceptable cuts to NASA’s science and aeronautics programs, and it is inconsistent with the stated goals of the Administration’s American Competitiveness Initiative. We believe that if those cuts are not reversed, long-term damage will be done to important national R&D capabilities. Moreover, an exploration initiative that is premised on the curtailment or diminution of other core NASA missions is not likely to prove politically sustainable over the long run."
"We believe that failure to provide the funds necessary to carry out a balanced program of R&D in science, aeronautics, and human space flight would call into question the wisdom of proceeding with the exploration initiative as currently conceived. Congress would be ill-advised to start down the road of making large investments in the hardware and systems needed for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit - for which the magnitude of the required investment will increase dramatically in the period beyond the current five-year NASA budget plan - in the absence of a national consensus to provide the necessary resources."
Read the letter here »
Recent Space & Aeronautics Hearings and Markups
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Subcommittee Jurisdiction
Committee Rule 3(a)(4)
Legislative jurisdiction and general and special oversight and investigative
authority on all matters relating to astronautical and aeronautical research
and development including:
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national space policy, including access to space;
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sub-orbital access and applications;
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its contractor and
government-operated laboratories;
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space commercialization, including the commercial space activities relating to
the Department of Transportation and the Department of Commerce;
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exploration and use of outer space;
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international space cooperation;
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National Space Council;
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space applications, space communications and related matters;
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earth remote sensing policy;
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civil aviation research, development, and demonstration;
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research, development, and demonstration programs of the Federal Aviation
Administration; and
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space law.
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Subcommittee Members
Democrats:
Mark Udall (Colorado),
Ranking Democrat
David Wu (Oregon)
Michael M. Honda (California)
Brad Miller (North Carolina)
Sheila Jackson Lee (Texas)
Brad Sherman (California)
Jim Costa (California)
Al Green (Texas)
Charlie Melancon (Louisiana)
Bart Gordon (Tennessee),
ex officio
Republicans:
Ken Calvert (California),
Chairman
Ralph M. Hall (Texas)
Lamar S. Smith (Texas)
Dana Rohrabacher (California)
Roscoe G. Bartlett (Maryland)
Frank D. Lucas (Oklahoma)
J. Randy Forbes (Virginia)
Jo Bonner (Alabama)
Tom Feeney (Florida)
Michael T. McCaul, Texas
Mario Diaz-Balart, Florida
Sherwood L. Boehlert
(New York),ex officio
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