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Alabama Vs Florida Food Fight Over SLS Funds

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
September 2, 2011
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Florida senators dispute Sen. Richard Shelby’s criticism of spending at Kennedy Space Center, Huntsville Times
“Florida’s senators share the frustration. So do Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and more than a few House representatives. They’ve all pressed NASA and the White House this year to get started on SLS. But the Shelby/Sessions letter went further and accused NASA of wrongly shifting some $341 million to Kennedy Space Center in Florida for improvements that they say should go to SLS. Those improvements at Kennedy are only “tangentially” related to the heavy-lift rocket project, according to the Alabama senators. Florida’s senators sent their own letter to the White House 11 days later on Aug. 26 saying “there appears to be a misunderstanding.” Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio say they wrote to “clarify the intent of the law.” Spending for improvements at Kennedy was always part of SLS, the Florida senators said.”

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