Policy Blog

If your representative is on the House Budget Committee, then contact them by 13 July and ask them to support a bicameral, bipartisan agreement to stop sequestration and raise the spending caps for FY 2018.

The National Space Council, a presidential advisory group, was reestablished. The Council is expected to meet by the end of the summer.

The AAS seeks help from DC-area members to package and deliver solar eclipse glasses and instructions to all 535 congressional offices on Capitol Hill in mid-July.

The FY 2018 Budget Request outlines the administration's priorities for federal spending. We summarize the NASA, NSF, and DOE proposals.

The AAS participated with the National Solar Observatory and the exhibit booth focused on the importance of understanding the physical processes that lead to phenomena like space weather events.

Ask your senators to sign onto a "Dear Colleague Letter" to show their support for robust funding for DOE-Science.

Jesus Rivera, a graduate student at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, describes his experience at the March 2017 AAS Congressional Visits Day.

Ask your senators to sign onto a "Dear Colleague Letter" to show their support for robust funding for NSF.

Congress has reached an agreement on funding for FY 2017. Here we provide some detail about the funding for NASA, NSF, and DOE.

Julie Davis, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, describes her experience at the March 2017 AAS Congressional Visits Day.