Bill Nelson actually said...

Thank you, also, in an uncertain budget year, where we haven't had budgets submitted by the White House that have matched with the authoriza...

Thanks to Senator Hutchison and to Senator Barbara Mikulski, they had added another billion dollars, over and above the White House request.

It's been a long time since I chaired one of these Space Subcommittee hearings.

It seems that that language that sets up the process you just described is a little vague.