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House Appropriators Plan 10 Percent Cut To NASA Budget Request

Defense Daily Staff

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

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The House Appropriations Committee yesterday released a draft mark-up of the FY ’12 budget for NASA that proposes to slash the agency’s request by $1.9 billion, or 10 percent, to $16.8 billion versus the $18.7 billion sought by the Obama Administration. The draft budget, which will be marked up today by the House Appropriations Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee, is $1.6 billion less than the Congress appropriated earlier this year in a Continuing Resolution for FY ‘11. For NASA the bill…

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