NASA Denied Raise as Spending Measure Heads to White House
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WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate gave final passage to a stripped-down spending measure Feb. 14 that denies NASA and many other federal agencies a budget increase for 2007.
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President Bush's "Vision for Space Exploration" got a skeptical reception in January and was left for dead in midsummer, but it made a stunning last-minute comeback when the House majority leader delivered NASA's $16.2 billion budget request as part of the omnibus $388 billion spending bill passed Nov. 20.
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The budget increase Congress just voted for NASA is a clear endorsement of President Bush&#39;s plan to send astronauts back to the moon and later Mars, the head of the space agency said Tuesday.
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The Bush administration came out today in opposition to Democratic proposals to hold down the scheduled 17 percent increase in Medicare premiums next year, saying that
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White House challenges Congressional report casting doubt on the success of the 'surge' strategy.
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The White House insisted on Tuesday that the timetable for President George W. Bush&#39;s proposed revamp of the tax code had not changed and Bush sees it as a top priority.
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WASHINGTON: The US space agency NASA has put off resumption of space shuttle flights from March until at least May, the agency has said.
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The White House is resisting a congressional request for an economic adviser to President Bush to testify about the administration's fuel economy proposal.
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President Bush on Thursday ruled out  raising payroll taxes to help pay for Social Security reform, a  transition experts have estimated will cost $1 trillion to $2  trillion.
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With NASA&#39;s broken Genesis capsule stuck in the Utah desert and its shuttle assembly building battered by a hurricane at Cape Canaveral, the US space agency defended its budget and mission on Wednesday.
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NASA will delay the first manned flight of the new spacecraft designed to take humans back to the moon because of budget constraints, the agency's boss said Wednesday.
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The White House has approved a fiscal 2008 budget request of $468.9 billion for the Pentagon, $4.7 billion more than expected last year, according to a memorandum obtained by Reuters.
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House Majority Leader Steny H . Hoyer (D-Md.) promised yesterday that Defense Department civil service employees would not be laid off because of a budget dispute between the White House and Congress.
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NASA would get &#36;16.4 billion next year under a bill a Senate committee approved Tuesday, reversing a decision by House lawmakers to cut the space agency's budget below this year's levels.
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Social Security taxes will have to rise by half if lawmakers don't revamp the giant program, President Bush's budget chief said Friday as the administration sought support for its overhaul plans.
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Discrepancies between an independent review of NASA&#39;s astronaut healthcare system and an in-house survey prompted lawmakers Thursday to urge more open communications among the U.S. space agency&#39;s ranks.
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By The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Sep. 7--This past week the Bush administration put a down payment on its promise to return astronauts to the moon and eventually land a manned vehicle on Mars.