Posted on 07/14/2023 4:42:05 AM PDT by Fish Speaker
WASHINGTON — The long-burning battle on Capitol Hill over whether to base US Space Command headquarters in Colorado or Alabama has spilled into congressional deliberations on the Pentagon’s annual request to reprogram current year funds — with a group of Colorado lawmakers accusing House Armed Services Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers of holding up $4.1 billion to force a decision.
“Congressman Mike Rogers has decided to not approve hundreds of millions of dollars for our service members and our nation’s most vital defense programs. This is outrageous. This legislative hostage-taking is unconscionable and must stop,” the Colorado delegation, led by Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, said in a press release today. They were joined by Colorado representatives, Joe Neguse, Diana DeGette, Brittany Pettersen, Yadira Caraveo, and Jason Crow, all Democrats.
Rogers, a Republican from Alabama, shot back in a statement to Breaking Defense: “It’s unfortunate that the Junior Senator from Colorado chose to release a partisan, parochial, and untrue misrepresentation of HASC processes. The Committee is continuing to review reprogramming requests from the Department of Defense.”
The funds in question are essentially monies that the Defense Department wants to move around from one program to another deemed more urgent — something that happens every year because DoD budget requests happen nearly a year before funds can be spent. Rogers has yet to approve the pending DoD reprogramming requests — which the Colorado Democrats say “appears to be an effort to pressure” the Air Fore to make a call on SPACECOM’s home.
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No hurricanes in Colorado
But already is a big target on the map
How bout in orbit or on the moon?
Well, Colorado is closer to space than Alabama, so they wouldn’t have to go as far in an emergency.
We’re talking Huntsville here. Do folks remember when it was just flattened by a Cat 4 Hurricane just last year? Thought not.
Watch out. Some people will believe you.
Of course, Huntsville is up the state near the borders of Georgia and Tennessee...
Hurricanes never come close.
Was this on CNN? Refresh our memory of this event.
:Ted Holden:
Dulce, Dugway or Area 51—plenty of underground space there...
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