[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2050 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2050

To terminate the Space Station Freedom and Advanced Solid Rocket Motor 
 programs, and to redirect the savings therefrom to deficit reduction, 
 and to National Aeronautics and Space Administration space and civil 
                           aviation programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 1993

Mr. Roemer (for himself, Mr. Barrett, Mr. Penny, Mr. Dooley, Mr. Upton, 
Mr. Frank of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Maloney) introduced the following 
   bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
                               Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
To terminate the Space Station Freedom and Advanced Solid Rocket Motor 
 programs, and to redirect the savings therefrom to deficit reduction, 
 and to National Aeronautics and Space Administration space and civil 
                           aviation programs.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) the Space Station Freedom and Advanced Solid Rocket 
        Motor programs are neither necessary nor affordable to the 
        United States at this time;
            (2) the presence of these two ``mega-projects'' is causing 
        schedule delays, funding cuts, cost-overruns, and cancellation 
        of other, worthier National Aeronautics and Space 
        Administration programs;
            (3) the cancellation of the Space Station Freedom and 
        Advanced Solid Rocket Motor programs will require a number of 
        close-down costs in order to end production and buy out certain 
        contracts;
            (4) elimination of these two multibillion dollar projects 
        will free up funds for other projects that can contribute to 
        enhancing United States competitiveness and scientific 
        advancement; and
            (5) in the absence of the Space Station Freedom and 
        Advanced Solid Rocket Motor programs, billions of dollars in 
        Federal obligations will be available for deficit reduction.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF PROGRAMS.

    No Federal funds may be appropriated or obligated for the Space 
Station Freedom program, or for the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor 
program, except for funds necessary to terminate such programs.

SEC. 3. REDIRECTION OF AMOUNTS SAVED.

    It is the sense of the Congress that at least 50 percent of the 
amounts saved by the termination of programs under section 2 should be 
applied to the reduction of the Federal budget deficit, and that the 
remainder of such amounts should be used to proportionately increase 
the National Aeronautics and Space Administration budget for--
            (1) civil aviation programs, to ensure that the United 
        States can continue to compete in and lead international 
        markets for the development and production of aircraft, meeting 
        the challenge posed by such competitors as the Airbus 
        consortium; and
            (2) other space science, research, and education programs 
        which can further build on the National Aeronautics and Space 
        Administration successes and economic contributions of the 
        past.

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