Your Government In Action |
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Dec 16 2005, 03:14 AM
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http://sciencedems.house.gov/press/PRArtic...spx?NewsID=1007 :
"[House] Science [Committee] Democrats lauded an agreement reached today on the Conference Report for S. 1281, the NASA Authorization Act of 2005. Following today's approval by the conference committee, the legislation is tentatively scheduled for consideration by the full House this week... "During the conference, Rep. Jackson-Lee was a strong proponent for... more educational programs in the sciences for minorities..." I should hope so, given that she showed up at JPL a few days after the Mars Pathfinder landing and asked if it could photograph Neil Armstrong's footprints. |
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Dec 23 2005, 11:34 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 20-April 05 From: Japan Member No.: 283 |
I thought that JRehling was reacting to the faintly smug attitude of some of the posts earlier in the thread. My grandmother had only the vaguest idea what a star was, but I didn’t consider her an idiot.
Admittedly, for a politician to think Neil Armstrong landed on Mars is pretty sad, but not necessarily more disturbing than for one (nobody specific, you understand) to believe the earth is 6000 years old. But on the subject of ignorant politicians, my homeland of New Zealand once had a Prime Minister (one George Forbes) who insisted during a cabinet meeting that two-thirds of something was more than three-quarters. And this was during the Great Depression, when it would have been helpful to have a leader who understood basic arithmetic… |
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