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Looks like SLS just lost a big mission.
« on: December 29, 2020, 01:03:15 pm »
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https://twitter.com/erdayastronaut/status/1341171905815080963

Looks like SLS just lost a big mission. The Europa Clipper mission WAS legally required to launch on SLS, but now there’s possibilities for commercial options. It should be noted, no commercial options can do a direct to Jupiter profile right now - https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrat



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Trump Signs CAA 2021 Package, Plans to Add Rescission Requests

https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2020/12/28/trump-signs-cca-2021-package-plans-to-add-rescission-requests/

President Donald Trump has signed a 5,593-page spending bill that includes major life and health insurance provisions — and issued a statement indicating that he intends to cut out some parts of the new law.

The bill, H.R. 133, served as the vehicle for ferrying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, through Congress. The best known provisions provide funding for federal government operations and for COVID-19 relief programs, such as a temporary unemployment insurance benefits increase.

The CAA 2021 package also includes sections that:

    Replace a 4% fixed interest rate in the official federal definition of “life insurance” with an adjustable rate.
    Provide a framework that’s supposed to eliminate most forms of “surprise billing,” or situations in which insured patients get large bills for out-of-network emergency care, or for care provided by out-of-network doctors at in-network hospitals.
    Require group health brokers to give clients detailed compensation reports, and require providers of individual health insurance to tell the insureds how much of the premium dollar was spent on agent commissions.

But the rescission statement the president issued along with the H.R. 133 signing announcement raises questions about what the final version of CAA 2021 will really look like.