About the bill
If Space Command used the fastest spacecraft ever, the Parker Solar Probe at 364,660 miles per hour, they could relocate from Colorado Springs to Huntsville in 10.3 seconds.
Context
Alabama’s Human Life Protection Act bans almost all abortions. Exceptions are granted for the life or physical health of the mother, as well as for a lethal fetal abnormality, but the law contains no exceptions for rape or incest.
In 2021, the Trump administration announced U.S. Space Command’s headquarters would relocate across the country: from Colorado Springs, Colorado to Huntsville, Alabama.
Yet a few months after Alabama’s law went into effect in 2022, NBC News reported in May 2023 that the Biden administration wants to keep Space Command’s headquarters in Colorado after all because of Alabama’s abortion …
Sponsor and status
118th Congress (2023–2025)
Introduced on Jun 21, 2023
This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. It was introduced into Congress on June 21, 2023. It will typically be considered by committee next before it is possibly sent on to the House or Senate as a whole.
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8 Cosponsors (8 Republicans)
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S. 2089 is a bill in the United States Congress.
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