In the latest example of how fecklessness and parochialism in Washington are undermining the U.S. civil space program, committees in the House and Senate have drafted 2014 NASA spending bills that are more than $1 billion apart. The yawning gap is largely because the Republican-led House is adhering to self-imposed ceilings for civilian discretionary spending that roughly track with sequestration, while the Democrat-controlled Senate, like the White House, is pretending that seguestration doesn't exist.
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