Space Policy Edition #23 - Blitzing Congress: Planetary Society volunteers visit Capitol Hill

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The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 2 March 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Society members from 21 states descended on the U.S. capitol for a "blitz" of 178 meetings in two days. Casey and special guest Matt Renninger explain why that is such an important activity, and blitzers Leah and Stefanie Griffith share their story of coming to Washington to speak for space. More resources to explore this month’s topics are at http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/space-policy-edition-23-blitzing-congress.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Time for the space policy edition of Planetary Radio. This is our edition for March of 2018. The 22nd time we have come to
0:18.0	you with this special broadcast, this special podcast, about space policy happenings in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere around the globe.
0:26.3	I'm Matt Kaplan, the host of planetary radio.
0:29.0	That theme song that you heard is the closest we'll get to getting a talk to Jason Callahan today because of course
0:35.7	Jason composed and created it for us. But Jason was unable to join us today because of other business. Fortunately we have in his place our
0:46.3	colleague Matt Renninger who is the senior government relations manager for the
0:51.6	Planetary Society and with Matt of course is
0:54.7	Casey Dreyer the Planetary Society's director of space policy. Welcome guys.
0:59.2	Hey Matt and let's just be honest Jason's totally sleeping in right now.
1:04.3	He just doesn't want to do the show.
1:06.7	He's, no, Jason had a two-day conference
1:09.3	that he was at this week, and this week was actually quite busy for us so we couldn't record
1:13.8	earlier.
1:14.8	My other colleague Matt was happy to step in and actually it was almost more relevant anyway
1:19.6	because he was such a big part in the topic we're going to talk about today.
1:22.5	Thanks guys. I'm happy to be here even though I know I'm a poor standing for Jason, but I'm excited to be on.
1:27.1	Oh, you're too self-deprecating.
1:29.9	Matt, we are thrilled to have you and welcome back to the show.
1:34.4	And it has been an extremely busy week.
1:37.4	Before we talk about why, you know it's coming folks,
1:40.4	here's that pitch.
1:42.0	Are you a member of the Planetary Society? All of the stuff
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