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Congress Finalizes Four-Week DoD Funding Plan

Julie Samuel

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

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The House is poised to take up a government-funding plan tomorrow that would temporarily cover the Pentagon for the next month and also deal NASA a full-blown budget that is smaller than the White House wanted. A conference committee of House and Senate lawmakers on Monday finalized the legislation, which includes three fiscal year 2012 appropriations bills--for Commerce-Justice-Science, which includes NASA, as well as Agriculture and Transportation-HUD--along with a continuing resolution (CR) temporarily funding the Pentagon and rest of the…

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