Republican senator Ted Cruz to oversee Nasa in Congress

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Senator Ted Cruz will chair the committee that oversees science and Nasa in the new Republican-controlled Congress, raising fears that the conservative Texan will cut funding to the space agency and science programs.

Cruz’s appointment to the space, science and competitiveness subcommittee comes amid a broad shift of power in the Senate, where the GOP won a majority in the 2014 midterm elections. Cruz was the top Republican on the subcommittee before the elections.

He has publicly stated support for Nasa but has also attempted at least once to cut the agency’s funding, arguing that larger government cuts necessitated changes to the space program’s budget. In 2013, Cruz both tried to reduce Nasa’s budget and said: “It’s critical that the United States ensure its continued leadership in space.”

Cruz has constituents invested in the space agency’s future – for instance, Nasa employees and contractors at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jan/12/republican-senator-ted-cruz-nasa-congress

[Xipe Totec]

1. Like putting the Marquis de Sade in charge of protecting a convent. nt

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. Expect all the photos and statues of the Apollo series rockets to be covered with curtains

because they look too phallic to him!

[SummerSnow]

3. Maybe we can send him to the moon. No return either

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4. as I said in the other post on the subject....

This must be one of the threats the Republicans were talking about, the ones they threatened would happen if Obama didn't play their game. They know exactly what they are doing and it's like one year olds in a crib smearing the contents of their diapers on the wall. How adult of them. So if Obama vetoes the pipeline, I wonder who gets appointed next and to what?

and they were voted into office by a minority of eligible voters... a super minority I'm told. Wonder how that happened?

Science, meet hell.