House Representatives Working On NASA Reform Bill 188
MarkWhittington writes with good and bad news about NASA's future budgets. From the article: "Rep. John Culberson, along with Rep. Frank Wolf, are developing a bill that will attempt to rationalize NASA's budget process and provide some long term continuity in its administration. First, a NASA administrator would be named to a ten year term. The intent is to provide some continuity in the way the space agency is run and to remove it, as much as possible, from the vagaries of politics. Second, NASA funding would be placed on a multi-year rather than annual cycle. This is of particular importance to the space agency because the majority of its high level projects take several years to run their course. If funding were fixed for a number of years, the theory goes, money could be spent more efficiently. NASA planners would know how much they have to spend four or so years going forward and would not have to worry about being cut off at the knees by Congressional appropriators year after year."
But is it more than political grandstanding in an election year? There might be a few problems: NASA could get stuck with a bad administrator, multi-year budgets might be a bit unconstitutional, etc.
NASA Reform (Score:5, Funny)
Imagination reborn
Bureaucratic stubble
From features shorn
Burma Shave
In a bold counterproposal... (Score:5, Funny)
NASA has proposed reorganizing themselves as the "United Earth Directorate" and absorbing all legacy governments.
Re:Radical Idea (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe it's because I am tired of beating my wife?
Re:Unconstitutional? (Score:4, Funny)
Look, let's not mince words here. We all know that it's the fault of Democrats & Republicans. The People are trying their best but their opposition refuses to compromise.
Expanded the variables for ya...