A selection of space policy/politics related posts:

• Budgets:
  • Like Last Year, New House NASA Bill Prohibits Development of Asteroid Redirect Mission – SpacePolicyOnline.com
  • Mikulski wants to up the new budget to flat – Space Politics
  • For Space Projects, Zero Gravity – NYTimes.com
• House appropriations hearing  April.8.14:
  • Bolden and House appropriators spar on various issues – Space Politics
  • House Hearing Generates Heat, But Bolden Stays on Message — Fund Commercial Crew – spacepolicyonline.com
  • Why NASA and Congress Spent Four Hours Shouting At Each Other About Russia – Motherboard
  • Report questions NASA centers’ security protocols – Florida Today
• US-Russia:
  • Is NASA An Opening Pawn In A New Cold War? – Forbes

[ Update:

• NASA Budget:
  • Subcommittee quickly approves amended NASA authorization bill – Space Politics
  • New NASA authorization bill makes only minor changes to last year’s version – Space Politics
  • NASA Authorizing Bill Clears House Subcommittee Quickly – SpaceNews.com
  • Mikulski: NASA’s 2015 Budget Will Be No Worse than Flat – SpaceNews.com
• House appropriations  hearing on the NASA budget on Tuesday (Apr.8):
  • Annual House / NASA Verbal Brawl Sees More Punches Landed – Innerspace.net
  • Bolden Talks Back to House Spending Panel | Science/AAAS | News
• US/EU vs Russia:
  • Political science: Russia deserves to be sanctioned, but halting scientific collaboration is not the way to do it. – Nature
• China:
  • Is It Time for the U.S. to Partner With China in Space? – NationalJournal.com

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Webcasts:

* Tues 4/8/14 Hr 3 | John Batchelor Show – Bob Zimmerman, the 3rd guest, on for regular space news/policy report

* Microbes in Orbit: Cheryl Nickerson’s Revealing Biomedical Research –  The Planetary Society – Includes brief segment with Bill Nye about planetary science budget.

Update: A video of the House hearing on Tuesday on the NASA budget: