Gordon Responds to Hubbard et al

Letter From House Science & Technology Committee Chair Bart Gordon to Prof. Scott Hubbard
“Finally, your letter makes no mention of the fact that the bill fully funds the president’s budget request for Earth science and aeronautics research. You may be under the mistaken impression that such support can be taken for granted in Congress, but I can assure you that there are no “givens” in the highly constrained budgetary environment we are facing at present. The Committee’s decision to support the significant augmentation in Earth science and aeronautics funding requested by the president imposed constraints on funding available for the programs you mentioned in your letter. I believe the Committee’s judgment was the correct one, but it had clear budgetary consequences for NASA’s other accounts. If you believe that additional funding for the programs you mentioned in your letter should take precedence over these science and aeronautics funding increases provided by the Committee, please inform me of that fact so that we can take your views into account in our deliberations on the final form of the NASA Authorization bill.”
Concerns Raised Over House NASA Authorization Bill (Letter), earlier post