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Title: Statement by Jack Brooks regarding saving funding for the Space Station, November 23, 1993
Identifier: camh-dob-001005
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Exploration of outer space, Legislation
Dates: 1993-11-23
Box: 2007-255/746
Folder: 10
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's news release about defeating the Frank Amendment to H.R. 3400, the Reinventing Government Act, that would have cut federal funding to the Space Station Program. Funding had previously been approved by authorization and appropriations votes.

Title: Statement of Congressman Jack Brooks, Regarding the Schumer Amendment to the VA, HUD, and IA Appropriations Bill, July 20, 1989
Identifier: camh-dob-001655
Creator: Brooks, Jack, 1922-2012
Topic: Exploration of outer space, Legislation
Dates: 1989-07-20
Box: 2007-255/661
Folder: 0.6
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: Jack Brooks's statement, on the 20th Anniversary of America's first moon landing, urging his colleagues not to cut funding for the establishment of a permanently manned space station. Brooks highlights how many years of research and resources have already been invested in the project, which would likely be killed by the passage of the Schumer Amendment. The amendment ultimately did not pass.