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With this as further confirmation, if you haven’t figured out by now that demoncraps are in any sense American<\/em>, I can’t help you anymore.<\/p>\n

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NASA leasing bill transformed into \u201cvoting rights\u201d legislation.<\/a><\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 NASA\u2019s ability to lease property at its facilities to companies or other organizations remains in limbo after a bill meant to reauthorize it was transformed in the House into voting rights legislation.<\/p>\n

H.R. 5746<\/a>\u00a0was introduced in October by Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), chair of the House Science Committee\u2019s space subcommittee. The bill extended NASA\u2019s authorization to enter into what are known as enhanced use leases, or EULs, of agency property to companies, government agencies, or educational institutions, for 10 years. The House passed the bill by a voice vote Dec. 8.<\/p>\n

The Senate amended the bill, extending the EUL authorization by only three months instead of 10 years, and passed it by unanimous consent, sending it back to the House.<\/p>\n

The Democratic leadership of the House, in an unusual move, then took the Senate-amended bill and stripped out the NASA provisions, replacing it with the text of two voting rights bills and now called the \u201cFreedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.\u201d They did so because H.R. 5746 had already passed the House and Senate, so the amended version could go directly to the Senate floor without the threat of a filibuster from Senate Republicans, who oppose the voting rights legislation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The move effectively sacrificed the NASA portions of the bill, something that Beyer said he accepted. \u201cThough I did not expect this outcome when I first introduced the NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act, if my legislation will help overcome the filibuster, the Senate can finally have the long-overdue debate on voting rights this country deserves,\u201d he said in a Jan. 13 statement. \u201cI would be honored to make this unexpected contribution to the cause of protecting our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The House passed the bill Jan. 13 220 to 203 on strict party lines, with Democrats voting in favor of the bill and Republicans against it.<\/p>\n

Republican members, including some who co-sponsored the original H.R. 5746, strongly criticized the decision to turn the NASA bill into a vehicle for voting rights legislation. \u201cThe majority has taken a practical, bipartisan bill and gutted it, inserting 735 pages of unrelated legislation and forcing the House to vote on it barely 12 hours after the text was released,\u201d Rep. Frank Lucas (R-Okla.), ranking member of the House Science Committee, said in a statement. \u201cWhat\u2019s more, by stripping this NASA bill and replacing it with an attempt to impose federal control of elections, they have killed our only vehicle to extend NASA\u2019s authority to lease out underutilized property and save taxpayer money.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASA\u2019s EUL authority lapsed Dec. 31, meaning that the agency cannot enter into new leases until that authority is renewed. NASA had signed leases for 65 properties as of 2019, which provided the agency with nearly $11 million in revenue that went to support other facility improvements.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear what the next step is for restoring NASA\u2019s EUL authority. A Senate bill introduced in December proposed a two-year extension, but that bill remains in the Senate Commerce Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope and expect to pass an EUL extension in future legislation,\u201d Aaron Fritschner, spokesman for Rep. Beyer, told SpaceNews Jan. 13 after the House vote, but details on how to do so were still being worked out.<\/p>\n

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