Two Senators Push To Get NASA as Much as $2 Billion Extra

摘要

Two key U.S. senators have joined forces to increase NASA's 2007 budget by as much $2 billion above the White House request. Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas), two longtime NASA supporters who serve on the Senate Appropriations Committee, are pushing for the extra money to reimburse NASA for bills the agency incurred as a result of the loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the damage to agency facilities caused by Hurricane Katrina.