Apr 17 2002
From The Space Library
NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe testified before the U.S. House Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, which has primary jurisdiction for setting NASA's annual funding levels. The subcommittee hearing was held in preparation for markup of FY 2003 appropriations legislation. Major media reported that subcommittee members were critical of NASA's plans to eliminate certain programs to achieve President George W. Bush's proposed reduction of US$1 billion in funding from NASA's human spaceflight programs. In response to the comments of some members of the subcommittee, O'Keefe noted that, because NASA planned to complete its review of human spaceflight programs later in the year, he could not yet identify the programs that the budget cuts would affect. O'Keefe also said that NASA would provide Congress with a review of its scientific priorities by June and an independent cost assessment by August. (Karen Masterson, “DeLay Calls Plans for NASA 'Timid',” Houston Chronicle, 18 April 2002; U.S. Congress, House of Representatives, Committee on Apropriations, Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies, Departments of Veterans Afairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for 2003, Part I, 1 07th Cong., 2nd sess., 17 April 2002.)
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