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	Congressman Says NASA Will Get a Budgetary Reprieve By Jonathan Lipman Special to space.com posted: 02:02 pm ET 06 October 1999

NASA BUDGET SEEMS IN GOOD SHAPE

WASHINGTON (States News Service) - The final version of the Congressional bill dictating NASAs funding for FY 2000 will probably contain few cuts to the agencys budget, said Rep. James Walsh (R-New York), the original author of the cuts in the House.

However, NASAs Triana satellite still seems destined for the chopping block.

Members of the Senate and the House VA-HUD Appropriations Subcommittee are scheduled to meet Thursday in conference to resolve the differences between the two versions of the bill. The House version includes over $900 million in cuts to the space agency, while the Senate version fully funds NASA at the level requested by the White House.

The final version "will be around the Senate level," said Walsh, Chairman of the House Subcommittee.

The Senate version of the bill, while it did give NASA the full $13.6 billion it requested, cut space science by $120 million to shift it to space transportation and other programs. The White House has asked that money be restored in the final version.

"The White House would like some more," Walsh said. "If they can find the (budget) offsets, were prepared to accept it."

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