The commission is just one player – and they weren’t the ones who floated the idea in the first place.

People who have a say in this:

• the House – Science Committee Chair Boehlert (R-NY) has sounded skeptical about the new exploration vision from the start, and particularly funding for the “crew exploration vehicle”. As far as I know he remains to be convinced. However, House majority leader Tom Delay has taken on this legislation himself, bypassing the science committee and Boehlert’s objections, apparently, at least up to this point.
• the Senate – Senator Brownback of the Commerce committee (which includes space) seems to have introduced legislation just yesterday in support of the new plan.
• the White House – which seems to want the vision thing to be a success but hasn’t put a lot of muscle into it, except possibly being behind this idea of closing a field center
• the presidential commission, which just released this report, and recommended converting the NASA field centers into federally funded R&D centers, so NASA staff would no longer be government employees
• NASA itself, which has many parts, many of which oppose change (and all of which oppose closing any field centers, especially their own)
• The NASA administrator, O’Keefe, who seems very much caught in the middle right now…