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Comparing The White House and Congress FY14 Appropriations

By Marc Boucher
NASA Watch
July 23, 2013
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House and Senate NASA FY14 appropriations comparison, Space Politics
With the passage on Thursday of the Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) appropriations bill by the full Senate Appropriations Committee, it’s possible now to compare that bill’s funding levels for various NASA accounts with the House version of the same bill and the administration’s original fiscal year 2014 budget request (amounts below in millions of dollars).”

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4 responses to “Comparing The White House and Congress FY14 Appropriations”

  1. npng says:
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    Mark, I think your article captions need spell checker help. Or you can go creatively the other way and say “Apoopcreations”.

    • Marc Boucher says:
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      Fixed.

    • muomega0 says:
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      One thing is quite clear over the decades: the shuttle product lines are all being kept open in accordance with the law

      Recall the 1988 Buyers Guide: http://ota-cdn.fas.org/repo
      If congress wishes to:—- Then it should:
      Limit NASA growth——— Maintain existing launch systems

      Upgrades to SLS, Delta, Atlas continue to be pitched to Congress with paths to 178 mT and beyond…All of the configurations are traded and optimized for old space.

      If this does not work out, then there will be a sudden push to keep launching Orion on Delta and the crew program to ISS, which will then be “competed” after limiting funding to COTS for over a decade until they disappear.

  2. gelbstoff says:
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    I think that one of the problems with NASA’s budgets is that the general public (and perhaps the Congress) does not understand how small the budget really is. I will really like to see articles like this provide some of this context. For example, that the combined NASA budgets from 1958-2011 (adjusted for inflation) is less than the budget for defense in 2011, or that we spend as much money air conditioning tents in Iraq and Afghanistan as we spend in NASA. The Congress is looking in the wrong place to make cuts.

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