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From: dave@fps.com (Dave Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Barbara Boxer
Keywords: space
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Date: 10 May 91 22:43:40 GMT
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In article <8119@eos.arc.nasa.gov> brody@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Adam R. Brody) writes:
>Anybody know Barbara Boxer's views on space?  I just got a 
>solicitation for some campaign funds and was wondering if 
>she was worthy of any.

I saw Boxer on C-Span the other day in a subcomittee meeting on the Space
Station.  She was asking Richard Truly some very pointed questions about the
financing he was requesting for the station.  I don't know if I could call
her pro-space but she did seem to be actively interested in making NASA
ask for the appropriate budget for the committments it has made.  Whether
this was because she was interested in seeing a working space station or
because she liked to needle NASA I couldn't be sure.

Watching C-Span is a bit of an exercise in futility, though, because one
longs to holler at these bone-heads in Congress and go beat them over the
heads with a big stick until they start asking the _right_ questions.
The sub-comittee meeting on the B-2 that was on that day made me want to
puke.  "So General X, in your opinion, if we don't have the B-2 then truth, 
justice and the American Way will be imperiled?"

--
David L. Smith
FPS Computing, San Diego        ucsd!celit!dave or dave@fps.com
"It was time to stop playing games.  It was time to put on funny hats and
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