Florida Politics - Campaigns & Elections. Lobbying & Government.

Scott PowersDecember 11, 2018

When Republican Michael Waltz takes his seat in Congress next month he’ll be bringing his concerns about health care costs from his business background, veterans and national security from his military background, and space from both. The lieutenant colonel in the Army National Guard with multiple deployments as an Army Green Beret officer and years as […]

Scott PowersDecember 10, 2018

1537011560_Who-Is-Bill-Nelson-Parkland-Parents-Rally-To-Endorse-Senator’s-Re-Election-Bid-770x415.jpg

In a floor speech that moved from touting science and economics to the future of human life, Florida’s Democratic U.S. Senate Bill Nelson essentially said goodbye to being part of America’s space policy Monday and urged his colleagues to support science, space, and exploration forever more. Nelson’s days in the U.S. Senate are counting down […]

Scott PowersJune 26, 2018

Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris King allowed that a new wind of success and hope has breathed new life into Florida’s space industry on the Space Coast in the last few years of Republican Gov. Rick Scott‘s administration. So what’s a Democrat to do? Plenty, King said Monday after touring space industry sites and meeting with […]

Scott PowersJuly 6, 2017

At the first major address by the administration of President Donald Trump on space policy, Vice President Mike Pence told a NASA gathering at the Kennedy Space Center that a new era is dawning of American leadership in space, and promised a return to the moon. But Pence stopped there, offering almost no specifics on […]

Scott PowersJuly 5, 2017

Florida’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson expressed grave warning about North Korea now that it has launched an intercontinental ballistic missile but called it a “vexing problem” that has no clear solutions. Nelson said the United States has only two options, seeking a diplomatic solution, which he suggested does not seem to be working, or […]

Scott PowersOctober 28, 2016

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence will talk space policy Monday in Cocoa at a special meeting of the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast. Pence becomes a late replacement for an appearance that had been scheduled for Donald Trump earlier this week. Trump’s schedule got difficult and he never firmed up the appearance, leaving […]

Scott PowersOctober 19, 2016

Donald Trump is coming to Kennedy Space Center and the Space Coast Monday to tour facilities and discuss space policy. The key event will be a meeting with the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast, where area space industry leaders will probe his ideas on space and how that fits in with the Space […]

Scott PowersAugust 19, 2016

Saying NASA needs long-range political assurances, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio declared broad backing for the space agency’s agenda Friday and called on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton to do the same. Rubio met Friday with space industry representatives and others in a roundtable discussion organized by the Economic Development Commission of Florida’s Space Coast and Space […]

Scott PowersJuly 27, 2016

With wars, terrorism, gun violence, economic problems, national debt, immigration issues and other national crises, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton might be excused for focusing on them, yet many Floridians — particularly Central Floridians — are eagerly waiting to hear what they aren’t yet talking about, space. The futures of NASA, commercial space initiatives, and defense […]

Tag: Space policy

Michael Waltz focuses on health care, veterans, national security – and space

Bill Nelson’s Senate farewell to space speech urges exploration forever more

Chris King pledges workforce development for space industry

Mike Pence promises renewed American leadership in space, the moon

Bill Nelson joins grave warnings about North Korea, Vladimir Putin’s cyber warfare

Mike Pence to talk space policy with Space Coast EDC Monday

Donald Trump coming to Space Coast to talk space policy

Marco Rubio declares support for NASA plan, calls on presidential nominees to do same

America’s future space policy still a mystery from Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton