Because Guns Freedom Baby Jesus: House Cmte Votes To Slash NASA Earth Science Funding

[hatrack]

he House committee charged with authorizing NASA spending took aim at a key Obama administration priority Thursday with a party line vote slashing spending on Earth science - the missions that study issues such as global climate change. Protected and expanded were NASA's development of a big new deep-space rocket and missions to other planets.

Republicans on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, including bill co-sponsor Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Huntsville), said the measure "restores balance." Democrats and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said the bill "guts" critical science missions to understand the climate and threatens NASA's broad support on Capitol Hill.

The vote today is just one step in a congressional process of approval for NASA spending. It authorizes spending levels for FY 2016 and FY 2017 but does not appropriate any money to fund those authorizations.

The committee bill authorizes NASA to spend $1.45 billion for Earth science in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 and for fiscal year 2017. The White House wanted $1.95 billion for next year. The committee authorizes $1.5 billion for planetary science in 2016 and 2017, up from the $1.36 billion the White House wanted next year.

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http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/04/republicans_take_aim_at_obamas.html

[Judi Lynn]

1. When they are willing to block the truth from getting through, they lose the right to govern.

They are common criminals.

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Say "#### you" to a "man" who
wants to keep the truth from you,

Alabama's Rep. Mo Brooks.[/center]