On yesterday the Space Foundation issued a press release about the NASA funding in the FY 2005 budget. Aren’t they a little late to the party? Not really: first of all, the omnibus budget bill, while approved by Congress on November 20, had been bottled up there until Congress could get around to removing an unrelated provision (related to Congressional access to tax returns), which is being taken care of this week. Second, the Space Foundation issued a press release on November 22 with similar congratulations. So similar, in fact, that the two press releases have virtually identical wording. This section of Monday’s release shows one of the few changes:
Credit lies with many Members of Congress who were personally involved with the process, especially House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, Rep. Bud Cramer and Rep. Dave Weldon who, along with President Bush and NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe, all get top billing as the architects of this bipartisan budgetary and policy success.
Compare this to the November 22nd release:
Credit lies with many people, but President Bush, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, and NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe all get top billing as the architects of this bipartisan budgetary and policy success.
Perhaps the foundation simply wanted to give a shout out to Reps. Cramer and Weldon. Other sections of the two releases are, in fact, word-for-word identical. Of course, repetition is a time-honored learning tool…
