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Politics Aff – Wolf Link Trick (1/2)Wolf is the subcommittee chair – any funding increases have to go through him Schneider, Congressional Research Service Specialist on Congress and Koempel, Congressional Research Service Senior Specialist in American National Government, 10 (Judy and Michael L, Congressional Research Service, 10/5/2010, House Committee Chairs: Considerations, Decisions, and Actions as One Congress Ends and a New Congress Begins, http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34679_20101005.pdf, Access: 7/11/11) AC A committee chair serves as the leader of a committee, with responsibility for setting the course and direction of the panel for committee members and the House and for managing a large professional and paraprofessional staff. The senior committee staff should ensure the chair’s goals are carried out effectively. Once a committee chair is selected during the post-election transition period, he or she, often in consultation with others, makes a series of decisions and takes a series of actions. Some actions complete a committee’s duties in the Congress just ending, while other actions are taken in anticipation of the new Congress and then in the new Congress. Some decisions are related to the committee’s policy calendar; others to the committee’s administrative functions; others to the chair’s responsibilities during committee sessions; others to the role of committee members; others to the relationship with the committee’s ranking minority member, other chairs, and party leaders; and still others related to subcommittee leaders. Many decisions are made with a deadline imposed by House rules. Specifically, a committee chair controls the selection of committee staff, authorizes expenditures from the committee budget, establishes operational and ethics policies, determines committee travel allocations, decides the content of the committee website, and is responsible for administration of the committee’s rooms, paperwork, and other operations. Most committees entrust the drafting of the budget to the committee chair, although a committee’s minority party members seek to ensure that they receive an appropriate allocation of resources. Before the chair introduces a funding resolution, the committee approves the chair’s draft budget. Normal means makes Wolf an optimal advocate for the plan Kennedy, advocate with the Space Frontier Foundation, 11/14/10 (Jack, “Guest column: ‘Envoys of mankind’ deserve benefits of Astronaut Rescue Treaty”, InsideNova.com, http://www2.insidenova.com/news/2010/nov/14/envoys-mankind-deserve-benefits-ar-651129/#fbcomments, accessed 6/30/11) EK Several members of Congress appear not to be willing to obligate, or to receive, assistance from Chinese-made space vehicles or their human crews despite the international law. Rep. Frank Wolf questions cooperation with the Chinese in space, citing human rights violations or military technology transfer concerns. The congressman has legitimate concerns with the Chinese. The question is whether this is the correct venue to seek to enforce it; space may not be the proper venue when it comes to astronaut rescue. Sino-American relations are not perfect, but most analysts have characterized U.S.-China foreign policy as complex and multi-faceted. The People’s Republic of China and the United States are neither allies nor enemies. The American military establishment doesn’t view China as an enemy, but as a competitor in some areas and a partner in others. The United States must decide if China is a competitor or partner in space affairs. In either case, international law obligates both nations to cooperate when the lives of “envoys of mankind” are at stake. In this decade, American commercial space launch firms plan to place more humans in space than cumulatively all nations have over the past 50 years. It would be an error not to have a bona fide protocol to provide one another assistance in space if the situation demands. Like Nixon, it may be that Congressman Wolf is the more appropriate person to open this door to the future in Chinese-American space relations and to suggest some space détente rescue pact among American, Chinese, Indian and Russian space agencies. Cooperation does not have to be difficult; human spacefaring nations [CARD CONTINUES] Politics Aff – Wolf Link Trick (2/2)[CARD CONTINUED, NO TEXT REMOVED] need cooperation on ship-to-ship communication protocols, docking ports, oxygen and water hose sizes, and the like to save the lives of those opting to spaceflight in the decades ahead. The United States need not transfer the designs of our booster rockets, the next spacecraft design or compromise national security technology transfer concerns to accomplish a mutual rescue-in-space plan. The United States need not wait for the siren call of a Titanic-like space mishap to determine if we have measured up to the spirit of international space law. We need not determine the ethnicity of envoys of humanity to determine if they are worthy of a space rescue. No matter who’s involved —Chinese, Indian, Russian, American NASA astronauts or private American space tourists — Americans need to lead in the development of protocol and etiquette in providing assistance in space emergencies. There will be another mishap in space by Americans. Equally, there will be life-threatening problems in space for the Chinese, Russians and Indians. We need not adopt domestic policy that demeans the international law to save the lives of fellow envoys of humankind; quite the contrary, America needs men like Congressman Wolf leading the way, ensuring domestic codification of the international astronaut rescue agreement for 21st century spaceflight. Wolf is in a good position to start up one of the more important diplomatic protocols for in-space multinational space rescue plans as a member of the House Appropriations Committee. Rather than simply bashing the NASA administrator for his recent visit to China to review their space launch hardware and assets, the congressman could seek to fund a NASA and FAA study for American participation in the development of a multinational space rescue plan in the next fiscal year’s federal budget. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. Objective files -> Pop Warner History files -> North Carolina Inclusion Initiative Mapping Where Children with ieps are Being Served Purpose files -> Fall 2013 Spring 2014 Program Data: Standard 1 Exhibit 4d files -> Hanban – asia society confucius classrooms network 2010 request for proposal files -> Northern England’s set-jetting locations Download 0.99 Mb. Share with your friends:
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