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Goldin Calls Budget Cuts A Knife in the Heart
posted: 06:12 pm ET
27 July 1999
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goldin_reaxNASA Administrator Dan Goldin is outraged about proposed cuts to his agency's budget, which has fallen steadily for eight straight years despite budget surpluses, a booming economy, and a string of successes from earth-orbit to the surface of Mars and beyond. Monday, the U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee passed a funding bill that cuts NASA's budget about 11 percent below the President's request for Fiscal Year 2000. "The NASA team just launched Chandra, the world's most powerful space telescope," NASA Administrator Dan Goldin said. "Today, we will have to turn it back on Washington to see what remains of the NASA budget." "Year after year, NASA is touted for doing more and more with smaller budgets and held up as a model of good government," said Goldin. "The NASA employees get up every day to achieve what most think is impossible. They have risen to the challenge of smaller budgets. And this is the reward the NASA team gets? Not only is this cut devastating to NASA's programs, it is a knife in the heart of employee morale."
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