House Passes CR - NASA Details

House Passes Year-Long CR, NASA Would Get $18.9 Billion, Space Policy online

"CR's typically extend an agency's existing budget for a certain period of time, but the version passed yesterday by the House is different. While the total amount of funding in the bill, $1.09 trillion, is the same as the current level according to Politico, NASA's budget, for example, would rise from its FY2010 level, though is still less than the request. The CR also spells out in some detail how NASA is to spend the money, not unlike a traditional appropriations measure."

House passes NASA budget, gives $169 million more to heavy-lift

"North Alabama's two Republican congressmen, Rep. Parker Griffith of Huntsville and Rep. Robert Aderholt of Haleyville, voted against the bill despite its boost for NASA."

Full Year CR: House Amendment to Senate Amendment to H.R. 3082 (NASA Excerpt)

"SEC. 2206. Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for the following accounts of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration shall be as follows: ..."