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Lawmakers Push NASA to Return to the Moon
By Damon Poeter | PC Mag | April 10, 2013
A battle brewing inside NASA over long-term mission goals has spilled over to Capitol Hill with a bipartisan group of legislators on Wednesday introducing a bill that would re-set the space agency's focus on returning astronauts to the Moon before attempting manned missions to Mars or a near-Earth asteroid.
Congress pushes back against NASA abandonment of the moon
By Mark Whittington | Examiner.com | April 10, 2013
In an April 10, 2013 post on his congressional website, Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fl , has announced a push back against NASA Administrator Charles Bolden’s declaration that the moon is off limits to Americans with the Re-Asserting American Leadership in Space Act or REAL Space Act.
Bill Posey Shoots for the Moon
By Eric Giunta | Sunshine State News | April 10, 2013
U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., is leading a bipartisan congressional coalition in re-introducing a bill directing NASA to return to the moon by 2022 and to establish an American colony there.
It would be a massive project in which the Florida Space Coast likely would play a role.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Bill Posey (R-FL), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Chairman Frank Wolf (R-VA), Robert Aderholt (R-AL), John Culberson (R-TX), Steve Stockman (R-TX), Pete Olson (R-TX), Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Ted Poe (R-TX) have once again reintroduced bipartisan legislation directing NASA to develop a plan for returning to the Moon and establishing a human presence there.
Rep. Mo Brooks remembers Margaret Thatcher as 'great friend to the United States'
By Paul Gattis | AL.com | April 8, 2013
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, today remembered former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a "great friend to the United States."
Thatcher, 87, passed away today after a stroke.
The full text of Brooks' statement:
Sheffield receiving $2.6 million for tornado recovery
ABC WAAY 31 | April 4, 2013
SHEFFIELD - The U.S. Economic Development Administration is giving the city $2.6 million for recovery related to the April 2011 tornadoes.
Congressman Robert Aderholt announced in a news release Thursday that the money would be used for flooding infrastructure to protect Helen Keller Hospital and for creating areas for future economic development.
Paging All Young Artists — Congress Wants You
By Anjuli Sastry | ABC News | April 2, 2013
Freddie Lambright III didn’t expect the self-portrait he drew for his high school art class last year to be a prize winner, but the Congressional Art Competition thought differently and declared him a winner in its annual nationwide high school visual art competition.