Comments on: Mikulski confirms another attempt at a “miracle” http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/06/19/mikulski-confirms-another-attempt-at-a-miracle/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mikulski-confirms-another-attempt-at-a-miracle Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: anonymouspace http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/06/19/mikulski-confirms-another-attempt-at-a-miracle/#comment-56159 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:45:12 +0000 http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/06/19/mikulski-confirms-another-attempt-at-a-miracle/#comment-56159 Maybe part of the reason these “miracles” keep failing year after year is because the lobbying effort doesn’t get started until after the President’s budget has been submitted and the appropriations bills have already started moving. Maybe Sen. Mikulski and her staff wouldn’t have to rely on “miracles” if they bothered to influence key White House and Congressional decisionmakers before decisions are made and become formalized in budgets and bills.

Of course, highly public calls for changes in budget priorities like this one are usually more about impressing voters in home states rather than making any actual impact on the budget.

FWIW…

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