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Dawn Zimmer: “I wish I could say that we were wrong, but every day provides us with new evidence that we were right. In a period of…”

On the recordMay 30, 1996
I wish I could say that we were wrong, but every day provides us with new evidence that we were right. In a period of declining NASA budgets, the space station, which is now estimated by the GAO to cost more than $94 billion, has already begun to cannibalize more valuable programs in space. Bill Clinton's proposed NASA budget drops from $13.8 billion next year to $11.6 billion in the year 2000, and when inflation is factored in, the cut is even deeper. The Republican budget provides somewhat more money for NASA, but even so, the amount of available funds is drastically less than we thought it would be just a few years ago. There is simply not enough money to build the space station and to meet the Nation's more pressing needs for scientific research in space and on Earth.
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Dawn Zimmer
New Jersey
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Discussing the financial implications of the space station project during a House committee meeting.

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