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Oklahoma Representative James Bridenstine, a Navy Reserve pilot, was confirmed as NASA's 13th administrator on Thursday.
In a 50-49 vote Thursday, Oklahoma Representative James Bridenstine, a Navy Reserve pilot, was confirmed as NASA's 13th administrator, an agency that usually is kept away from partisanship. His three predecessors — two nominated by Republicans — were all approved unanimously. Before that, one NASA chief served under three presidents, two Republicans and a Democrat.
The two days of voting were as tense as a launch countdown.
A procedural vote Wednesday initially ended in a 49-49 tie — Vice President Mike Pence, who normally breaks a tie, was at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida — before Arizona Republican Jeff Flake switched from opposition to support, using his vote as leverage to address an unrelated issue.
Thursday's vote included the drama of another delayed but approving vote by Flake, a last-minute no vote by Illinois Democrat Tammy Duckworth — who wheeled onto the floor with her 10-day-old baby in tow — and the possibility of a tie-breaker by Pence, who was back in town.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 20 2018, @08:17PM
Making the US space program work involves actually developing and implementing technology for launching craft. NASA doesnt belong in climate change, climate change is all political, plots to globally redistribute wealth, its utilized based on Liberals ideas that the US is a faulty country, and reparations need to be made to other countries. The idea getting NASA out of climate change claptrap, ultimately intended to turn the US into a third world country, will put his behind China is the opposite of the truth. Growing the tax base in the US with economic growth means more money to put toward NASA and the cool stuff that the Chinese are doing