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Rep. Weiner Amendment to Cut NASA Budget by $298 Million Passes

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
February 16, 2011
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Keith’s note: An amendment Offered to H.R. 1 “Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011” by Rep. Weiner (D-NY) Amendment No. 125. Passed on a vote of 226-204. [NASA Watch Annotations for clarity]
Page 203, line 23, after the dollar amount, insert “(increased by $298,000,00)”.
[SEC. 1332. (a) Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for ”Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services (Including Transfers of Funds)” shall be $290,500,000.]
Page 204 line 8, after the first dollar amount Insert “(increased by $298,000 00)’ .
[(Including Transfers of Funds)” in division B of Public Law 111-117 shall be applied to funds appropriated by this division by substituting–
(1) ”$15,000,000” for ”40,385,000”;
(2) ”$0” for ”$25,385,000”;
(3) ”$1,500,000” for ”$170,223,000”;
(4) ”$0” for ”$168,723,000”; and
(5) ”$0” for ”$298,000,000”.]

Page 206, line 10, after the dollar amount, insert ”(reduced by $298,000 000) ‘.
[“(b) The proviso specifying amounts under the heading ”National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Space Operations” in division B of Public Law 111-117 for operations, production, research, development, and support of the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station and for Space and Flight Support shall not apply to funds appropriated by this division. SEC. 1336. (a) Notwithstanding section 1101, the level for ”National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Cross Agency Support” shall be $3,131,000,000.”]

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