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Washington, D.C. — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today released the following statement in response to the President’s FY14 budget proposal:
“Today the President submitted his budget proposal to Congress,” said Aderholt. “While there are some important funding items in the President’s budget, the reality is his budget will never balance. Further, it includes $1.1 trillion in new taxes and the Administration is once again relying on budget gimmicks, rather than real cuts, to claim their budget reduces our nation’s staggering $16.7 trillion deficit.”
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.