Huntsville Officials Ramp Up Efforts as Battle Over Constellation Enters Crucial Stage
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Huntsville leaders to ‘turn up the noise’ about importance of Constellation space program
The Huntsville Times
Huntsville leaders fighting Obama administration plans to scuttle NASA’s Constellation program said Friday they want to work with the current Congress to secure the program’s future rather than risk success on who might be in Washington after the November election.
So they want to “turn up the noise,” Mayor Tommy Battle said. They want people to show Congress their support for the manned space flight program by e-mail, letters, phone calls, web videos and other ways of getting Washington’s attention.
Right now.
“The next 90 days is going to be pretty important for us,” he said. “With as many issues sitting out there Congress is facing right now … we’ve got make sure that our cause and our efforts stay on the radar screen of both Congress and the administration.”
In about a month, Congress will begin to consider and “mark up” the 2011 budget, said former U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer. He’s now a lobbyist and chairman of the mayor’s Second to None initiative – a coalition of the City of Huntsville, industry, the Chamber of Commerce and others working to preserve Constellation and get it back in the next federal budget.
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