1/23/2024 0 Comments Nasa tv schedule![]() ![]() Historically each party chooses its own party leader so it shouldn’t have been a surprise that no Democrats voted for a Republican Speaker of the House even though some Republicans are blaming Democrats for not coming to McCarthy’s aid. On Tuesday, 210 of the 218 Republicans who voted wanted McCarthy to continue as Speaker (a “nay” vote was in favor of McCarthy staying), but it wasn’t enough for him to keep the job because eight HFC members joined 208 Democrats in voting against him. The approximately 20-member HFC is small, but has outsized influence because Republicans control the chamber by such a narrow margin (221 Republicans to 212 Democrats, with 2 vacancies). The HFC wants to cut nondefense back to FY2022 levels. McCarthy and President Biden negotiated the FRA which essentially keeps total FY2024 discretionary spending at FY2023 levels instead of what Biden requested for FY2024. NASA) more deeply than the House Appropriations Committee, which already cut it more than what Congress approved in the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA). They object to Republicans and Democrats working together and are intent on cutting nondefense spending (e.g. It was that bipartisanship that angered the ultra-conservative Republicans in the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) who drove McCarthy out. Steve Scalise (R-LA) is one of two announced candidates to be the new Speaker of the House. The relief felt just one week ago when Congress passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to keep the government open through November 17 was short lived since another CR will be needed at that time and whether a new Speaker will be willing to work with Democrats to get one passed as McCarthy did remains to be seen. Their ouster of their own leader, Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), last Tuesday caught almost everyone by surprise and could have ramifications for continued FY2024 government funding. More on those and a lot of other really interesting events shortly, but from a space policy perspective perhaps the most important action this week is House Republicans deciding who should be the next Speaker. NASA will share more details at two events on Wednesday. OSIRIS REx Asteroid Sample Return Capsule lid is opened at JSC’s Astromaterials Curation Facility, September 26, 2023. Quite a few NASA workers will be hard at work anyway, though, as they get ready to reveal the first samples returned from asteroid Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Wednesday, launch the next asteroid mission, Psyche, on Thursday, and conduct a spacewalk at the International Space Station also on Thursday. Tomorrow (Monday) is a federal holiday officially called Columbus Day to commemorate Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the Americas (on an island that is now part of the Bahamas) on October 12, 1492, though others now refer to it as Indigenous Peoples’ Day to honor the original inhabitants of these lands. The Senate is in recess except for pro forma sessions. Here is ’s list of space policy events for the week of October 8-14, 2023 and any insight we can offer about them. ![]()
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