I never knew Brian May wrote that...
Via NASAwatch we find the following
That is Griffin, talking about how NASA will keep the Crewed Exploration Vehicle development on track if Congress sticks with a continuing resolution for the 2007 budget - which would keep NASA's budget at the 2006 level, with earmarks deleted.
Problem is the CEV development budget is ramping up and needs more funding to have any hope to stay on budget.
I wonder what will be found at the bottom to cut?
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A while back, I mentioned how the budget proposed in the President's budget for the NIH for fiscal year 2007 was flat. It turns out that, for those of us in the field of cancer research, it's worse than that.
The Cato Institute's budget studies department has released a study that really nails Bush and the Republicans for their big spending ways. Here's the summary:
As I mentioned previously, the Senate passed the Specter-Harkin Amendment. The House of Representatives is our next target to ensure the Bush's anti-science budget is improved upon.
The glimmer of hope is that Milkulski will want to give NASA more money. I am not sure how that will work, however.
I had an interesting discussion over the holidays with the former comptroller of the US Marine Corp. He said that running for an entire year on a continuing resolution was basically impossible. He figured that Congress will have to get to the budget at some point, if it is just to patch the cracks that the continuing resolution reveals.
Of course, YMMV, this is all hearsay, etc., etc.