Hey, lets sign a bill to help NASA support itself

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By allowing them to lease space to folks like SpaceX and ULA and Blue Origin!!!! Seems like a thing everybody can get behind, right?

NASA leasing bill morphs into 'freedom to vote' legislation

Politician who introduced the bill pleased, but 'did not expect this outcome.'

www.space.com

But of course, politicians havent ceased to develop new ways to perform shenanigans..

The bill, also known as H.R. 5746, had quite the journey to legislation. After its introduction in October, the House voted to allow NASA once again to enter leases for the next 10 years on Dec. 8, allowing the bill to go to the Senate.


The Senate modified the bill to allow only a three-month extension for NASA, instead of 10 years, but passed it unanimously. But once the House re-received the bill under normal procedures, a new thing happened, according to SpaceNews.

"The Democratic leadership of the House, in an unusual move, then took the Senate-amended bill and stripped out the NASA provisions, replacing it with the text of two voting rights bills," SpaceNews stated.


"They did so because H.R. 5746 had already passed the House and Senate," the report added, "so the amended version could go directly to the Senate floor without the threat of a filibuster from Senate Republicans, who oppose the voting rights legislation."

 

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I thought NASA's job was to make moose limbs feel good about the fact they haven't developed beyond the 4th century. Or something.

 

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"The Democratic leadership of the House, in an unusual move, then took the Senate-amended bill and stripped out the NASA provisions, replacing it with the text of two voting rights bills," SpaceNews stated.

That's Bullshit