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I was watching C-SPAN this morning (ok, I had C-SPAN on while doing other things), which broadcast a floor debate on the omnibus budget bill. Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) threw this in during his comments on the bill: They [budget negotiators] did give into the Administration and there’s money to go to Mars. And, maybe, […] The AP reports that final negotiations over the FY2005 budget may have resulted in some extra money for NASA. According to the report, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay won an extra $300 million for the space agency—part of an increase in the across-the-board cuts on other non-defense and non-homeland security programs from 0.75 to 0.83 […] MSNBC’s Alan Boyle has a detailed update on the status of the bill formerly known as HR 3752: “formerly known” because the version that House and Senate negotiators compromised on now has a new designation, HR 5382. As of late Wednesday the bill appeared dead, at least in the eyes of the House Science Committee, […] Space News [subscription required] reported late Wednesday that House and Senate budget negotiators have agreed to give NASA $15.9 billion in FY2005. That amount is less than the $16.2 billion that President Bush originally requested, as well as the $16.4 billion the Senate Appropriations Committee proposed (a figure that includes $800 million in emergency funding), […] The same House Science Committee press release that notes the demise of HR 3752 has a bit of good news. The Senate passed by unanimous consent late Tuesday HR 5245, a bill that would extend commercial launch indemnification for five years. This is of considerable interest to the existing commercial launch industry, which has claimed […] The last couple of days have been a roller coaster, to put it mildly. On Tuesday, as reported here, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said publicly that HR 3752 was not dead and, in fact, a final deal was likely by the end of the day Wednesday. However, things apparently took a turn for the worse later […] Besides taking care of the FY2005 budget, the lame-duck session is the last chance for this Congress to pass HR 3752, the Commercial Space Transportation Amendments Act. Regular readers know about the ups and downs of this legislation, but in some introductory comments at Tuesday’s presentation by Peter Diamandis on Capitol Hill, outgoing space subcommittee […] Recent news accounts suggest a tone of cautious optimism about the fate of NASA’s FY2005 budget, as Congress reconvenes today for a brief lame-duck session. CongressDailyPM reported late Monday that while a budget cut of 0.75 percent is in the works for non-defense, non-homeland security agencies, NASA may be exempt from this cut and instead […] That’s the title of a presentation Tuesday morning on Capitol Hill by Peter Diamandis, president of the X Prize Foundation. The talk and luncheon is scheduled for 11 am in 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, and is sponsored by AIAA, ASME, IEEE-USA, and the Congressional Research and Development Caucus. An article by CongressDailyPM, published on GovExec.com, discusses the negotiations on an omnibus FY 2005 budget bill that would include funding for NASA. The article notes that the Bush Administration “was likely to receive close to its full requests” for NASA funding, after the House cut $1.1 billion from the proposed budget. The article doesn’t […] |
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