The substantive differences between the house subcommittee NASA allocation and the President's budget request were in the aeronautics part of the agency budget. Unfortunately, this was OSS's only new initiative. The letters and calls to Congress over the last few months, and particularly this past week, were heard.
Congratulations are in order for all.
BUT, we have only cleared the very first hurdle. NEXT, the legislation moves to the full House Appropriations Committee and the House. The process is then repeated in the Senate. It is expected that the entire process will wrap up within the next six weeks or so, as Congress wants to get on the campaign trail. It has been brought to our attention by a few members of our community that we might be giving the impression that NASA is unsupportive of science.