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Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas), ranking member of the House Science Committee, said she opposed a bill that "rubber stamps" the administration's space traffic management policy without additional study.

The House Science Committee approved a bill June 27 that would give the Commerce Department new responsibilities for space traffic management despite opposition by some Democrats that the bill “rubber stamps” the administration’s space policy.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...