Brushing aside the threat of a presidential veto, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an over-budget spending measure July 26 that would provide $17.6 billion for NASA for 2008.
The $53.8 billion Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill (H.R. 3093) passed by a vote of 281 to 142 following two days of debate that left the NASA portion largely unchanged from the amount that had emerged from the House Appropriations Committee two weeks earlier. Read more