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The Senate yesterday passed the joint funding resolution that funds NASA and many other federal agencies through the rest of the 2007 fiscal year. Since the Senate made no changes to the House version, that means that NASA will get just over $16.2 billion for the full fiscal year, compared to the nearly $16.8 billion […] The Senate yesterday ended debate, as expected, on the joint funding resolution that would fund many federal agencies, including NASA, through the end of FY07. There was no mention of any amendments to the bill, including any additional money for NASA; any efforts to add money to NASA will have to rely on a supplemental […] The House Science and Technology Committee is holding a hearing later this morning on National Imperatives for Earth and Climate Science. The hearing will be based on the Earth sciences decadal survey released last month that warned of a potential future gap in space-based Earth sciences data because of funding cuts (cuts that, as previously […] The Senate is poised to vote on the FY2007 joint funding resolution as early as Tuesday, after a cloture vote to end debate on the bill. According to reports it doesn’t seem like any effort to raise NASA’s share of the funding is getting much attention: the AP report and others have focused primarily on […] Yesterday’s Space Transportation Association breakfast, held immediately prior to the beginning of the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference, featured Leslee Gilbert, the minority staff director for the House Science and Technology Committee. Obviously there was a lot of interest in NASA’s FY07 and FY08 budget situations, although given that the FY08 budget had come out […] Some more reaction to the proposed FY08 NASA budget, on and off the Hill: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) says she is “disappointed” that NASA is getting only a 3 percent increase in FY08 over its FY07 proposal while other R&D agencies, like the NSF, are getting much larger increases. “I fought to have NASA included […] Some quick takes on the proposed FY2008 NASA budget: House Science and Technology Committee chairman Bart Gordon is critical of the budget, claiming that the administration isn’t offering the agency enough money to carry out all of its missions. “Exploration and human space flight are important long-term missions for the agency and our country. So […] Today the Bush Administration will release its proposed FY2008 budget; the overall budget will be out later this morning and NASA will have a briefing at 1 pm EST this afternoon to go over the agency budget in more detail. This. of course, while the agency still doesn’t have an FY2007 budget, although the Senate […] Yesterday the full House, as expected, approved the joint funding resolution that the appropriations committee passed on Tuesday. The vote was not strictly on party lines, with 57 Republicans voting for the resolution while only two Democrats (including Dennis Kucinich) crossing over to oppose it. The House did not change the NASA funding levels in […] |
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