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Awesome but isn't NASA one of the things the repubs are slowly trying to get rid of? One billion at a time....

House appropriators swing the budget axe

July 6, 2011 at 2:19 pm · Filed under Congress, NASA

The House Appropriations Committee released its draft Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) appropriations bill today, and the news is by and large not good for NASA. The committee is proposing $16.81 billion for NASA in FY12, nearly $2 billion less than the $18.724 billion in the president’s FY12 request. Here is an account-by-account comparison between the president’s budget request (PBR) and the House Appropriations Committee (HAC) draft bill (all values in millions of dollars):

Account PBR HAC Difference
Science $5,016.80 $4,504.00 -$512.80
Aeronautics $569.40 $569.93 $0.53
Space Technology $1,024.20 $375.00 -$649.20
Exploration $3,948.70 $3,649.00 -$299.70
Space Operations $4,346.90 $4,064.00 -$282.90
Education $138.40 $138.00 -$0.40
Cross-Agency Support $3,192.00 $3,050.00 -$142.00
Construction $450.40 $424.00 -$26.40
Inspector General $37.50 $36.30 -$1.20
TOTAL $18,724.30 $16,810.23 -$1,914.07

Within Exploration, the House bill includes $1.063 billion for the MPCV and $1.985 billion for the SLS, both slightly higher than the administration’s request. In addition, although the text of the legislation doesn’t specifically mention it, the press release accompanying it states that the bill terminates funding for the James Webb Space Telescope because it is “billions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management.” The CJS subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee is scheduled to mark up the bill tomorrow, with the full committee to take it up the following week.
http://www.spacepolitics.com/2011/07/06/house-appropriators-swing-the-budget-axe/