Dana Rohrabacher: “this bipartisan manager's amendment was crafted from 3 distinct minor amendments which have no impact on the funding…”

“this bipartisan manager's amendment was crafted from 3 distinct minor amendments which have no impact on the funding level of this bill and simply fine-tune or add policy provisions. The first part authored by the distinguished ranking member of the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics strikes a policy provision relating to freezing Space Station management responsibilities we had included in the bill at the time of the markup, and I support the language of the gentleman from Alabama. The second part is a clarification of the range of scientific data we are recommending that NASA purchase from the commercial data providers. There has been a lot of interest in comets and asteroids as of late. We did not want to leave them out. Now the third part is an amendment by the gentleman from Tennessee which was offered successfully in the last Congress to perfect the language of the Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act of 1949 based on technological progress that has been made since 1949, and I support Mr. Hilleary's language. As further evidence of how bipartisan our work in this bill has been, each of these parts were agreed to by the minority side, and so I combined them into a single amendment to save our time here on the floor.”