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Excerpt from Fiscal Year 1997 Nasa Authorization: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics of the Committee on Science, U. S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session; April 17, 1996 The Subcommittee convened at 10:05 a.m. in Room 2325 of the Rayburn House Office Building, the Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., Chairman of the Subcommittee, presiding. Present: Representatives Sensenbrenner, Calvert, Weldon, Stockman, Seastrand, Tiahrt, Rohrabacher, Davis, Foley, Hall, Roemer, Cramer, Barcia, Harman, Luther and Brown. Chairman Sensenbrenner. The Subcommittee will be in order. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We are meeting this morning to look into the programs that NASA and President Clinton have requested Congress to fund during fiscal year 1997. Recently we had NASA's posture hearing with Administrator Dan Goldin to review the President's budget submission for the agency through fiscal year 2000. At that hearing we identified some real problems with the agency's five-year spending plan. First, there is a large spending shortfall between the programs NASA is carrying forward and the outyear budget that the Office of Management and Budget has programmed for the agency. Second, there is a significant risk that the budget cuts in the out-years will fall disproportionately upon space science which this Committee has always made a high priority for the agency. Third, the hard decisions that must be made in order to bring NASA's programs into line with its budget have been left completely to Congress. Today we will take testimony from almost two dozen experts on how we might make those tough decisions. Several witnesses will talk about efforts to restructure the agency in order to save money. There is a broad agreement that NASA Administrator Dan Goldin has led a remarkable effort to make the agency more efficient. Considerable credit is due to the Administrator and all the NASA employees for the progress that they have made in this area. Other witnesses will discuss new technology and missions designed to carry the nation's space and aeronautic capabilities forward to the end of the next century. Representatives from NASA and industry will update us on the status of the Space Station and Space Shuttle programs. In many ways these last two programs are the long poles in the tent that sustains the political coalition for NASA's other mission areas. So we have a keen interest in the success of these programs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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