113th Congress
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.
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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.
Across US, people protest end of Saturday mail
Times-Journal | March 27, 2013
Postal Service workers and customers gathered last weekend at sites across the country to protest the end of Saturday mail delivery.
Dozens of letter carriers were among more than 200 people who rallied Sunday on the New Haven Green in Connecticut to protest the proposed end of Saturday mail deliveries.