Clark Lindsey has the current preliminary agenda:

1. Near Earth Objects (Asteroids and Comets)
2. Prizes for Space Achievements
3. ITAR Reform
4. NASA/Commercial Services

Fine as far as it goes, but I think there's an item missing there. We need to send a message to incoming chairman Oberstar to keep his hands off our suborbital launch regs.

Perhaps we have commsats and remote sensing no longer classed as munitions?

That's part of what "ITAR Reform" means.

The double standard of ITAR is incredibly wide. On one hand, I read a paper yesterday published by AIAA on combustion instability in liquid propellant rocket engines. It was jointly written by a NASA JSC employee and a PRC Chinese engineer working on the Long March.

On the other hand, I am working on the rocket engine for the X-Racer and have a contractor with a Canadian employee. I have to be careful to partition the information that goes to that contractor lest I run afoul of ITAR and get thrown in jail.

Go figure.

A "Policy X reform" platform in the majority of cases means that under the pretense of change, the new legislature will do nothing but shuffle around a few chairs then rename policy X.

Perhaps if they would outline what specific reforms they had in mind, some of us would be less cynical.