NASA Approps Changes Ahead?
Does Rearranging Appropriations Panels Make Any Sense?, Roll Call (new link from Center for American Progress)
“Anticipating the problem he will likely face – that is, repeatedly trying to overcome support for veterans in order to direct more money to the space center – DeLay put forth a proposal to realign subcommittee jurisdictions. His timing was perfect. He floated the proposal only weeks before the Republican Steering Committee – a group in which DeLay controls considerably more votes than his own – was to select a new chairman of the full Appropriations Committee.”