A$1 billion NASA emergency funding supple-mental championed by U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) and Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) cleared the Senate Appropriations Committee July 13 as an amendment to the 2007 Commerce, Justice, Science spending bill. The $1 billion is intended to partially reimburse NASA for the $2.3 billion it has had to spend in response to the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. The amendment also would provide $40 million to help NASA complete repairs to two Gulf Coast facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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