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starship-design: FW: SSRT: Space Access Update no. 72 Alert - Followup
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chris W. Johnson [SMTP:chrisj@mail.utexas.edu]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 1997 2:29 PM
To: Single Stage Rocket Technology News
Subject: SSRT: Space Access Update no. 72 Alert - Followup
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 1997 23:15:29 -0700 (MST)
From: Donald Doughty <doughtd@pr.erau.edu>
To: delta-clipper@world.std.com
Subject: Space Access Alert (SAU #72) Followup 6/5/97 (fwd)
Reply-To: delta-clipper@world.std.com
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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 02:09:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: hvanderbilt@BIX.com
To: hvanderbilt@BIX.com
Subject: Space Access Alert (SAU #72) Followup 6/5/97
Space Access Society SAU #72 Alert - Followup, 6/5/97
__________________________________________________________________________
We included a political action alert in Update #72 of 5/23/97, asking
you to contact members of the House National Security Committee R&D
Subcommittee, and ask them to support funding for reusable launch work
in next year's Defense Authorization.
We're happy to report that we've heard authoritatively that Rep. Curt
Weldon, R&D Subcommittee Chairman, plans to add $15 million for reusable
launch technology work in next Tuesday's Defense Authorization markup.
We intend to push for more in the House-Senate conference to come (we'd
asked for and think Phillips Labs could effectively use $75 million) but
this $15 million add is both a significant expression of support (the
initial amount was zero) and still quite useful even if we don't get it
increased later.
We'd like to thank everyone involved in this initial success, on the
Hill, inside the Beltway, and out in the country at large.
We'd also like to ask you to thank Representative Weldon for his support
for reusable "spaceplane" technology funding in the FY'98 Defense
Authorization, over the next few days. Keep it very brief, a few words
on the phone, a couple lines on the fax or letter - we want to let his
staff know we noticed and we're grateful, not eat up their time when
they're already overloaded. A note or postcard via paper mail is
probably the easiest for them to handle; an address that will work is:
The Honorable Curt Weldon
US House of Representatives
Washington DC 20515
If your local representative is also on the R&D subcommittee and you
contacted them previously, a quick thanks to them (as above) would also
be a good thing to do. We'll attach the R&D Subcommittee list again,
for your convenience.
(Freshmen have no numbers listed; you'll have to call the main Capitol
switchboard at 202 224-3121 and ask for their offices by name. No
guarantees the Democratic freshmen's names are spelled correctly; we
were working from a faxed list that was blurry in that section.)
House National Security Committee, R&D Subcommittee list
voice fax
- full committee chairman
Spence, Floyd (R-02 SC) 1-202-225-2452 1-202-225-2455
- ranking minority member
Dellums, Ronald V. (D-09 CA) 1-202-225-2661 1-202-225-9817
- subcommittee chairman
Weldon, Curt (R-07 PA) 1-202-225-2011 1-202-225-8137
Bartlett, Roscoe G. (R-06 MD) 1-202-225-2721 1-202-225-2193
Kasich, John R. (R-12 OH) 1-202-225-5355
Bateman, Herbert H. (R-01 VA) 1-202-225-4261 1-202-225-4382
Hefley, Joel (R-05 CO) 1-202-225-4422 1-202-225-1942
McHugh, John M. (R-24 NY) 1-202-225-4611 1-202-226-0621
Hostettler, John (R-08 IN) 1-202-225-4636 1-202-225-4688
Chambliss, Saxby (R-08 GA) 1-202-225-6531 1-202-225-7719
Hilleary, Van (R-04 TN) 1-202-225-6831 1-202-225-4520
Scarborough, Joe (R-01 FL) 1-202-225-4136 1-202-225-5785
Jones, Walter (R-03 NC) 1-202-225-3415 1-202-225-0666
Mike Pappas (R NJ)
Bob Riley (R AL)
Jim Gibbons (R NV)
- subcommittee ranking minority member
Pickett, Owen B. (D-02 VA) 1-202-225-4215 1-202-225-4218
Abercrombie, Neil (D-01 HI) 1-202-225-2726 1-202-225-4580
Meehan, Martin T. (D-05 MA) 1-202-225-3411 1-202-226-0771
Harman, Jane (D-36 CA) 1-202-225-8220 1-202-226-0684
McHale, Paul (D-15 PA) 1-202-225-6411 1-202-225-5320
Kennedy, Patrick (D-01 RI) 1-202-225-4911 1-202-225-4417
Rod Blagnjevich (D IL)
Silvestre Reyes (D TX)
Tony Allen (D ME)
Jim Turner (D TX)
Loretta Sanchez (D CA)
__________________________________________________________________________
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