$1 Billion More a Year for Gender Equality, Clean Energy and NASA, Says House Chairman

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$1 Billion More a Year for Gender Equality, Clean Energy and NASA, Says House
Chairman

Friday, December 19, 2008By Josiah Ryan, Staff Writer
House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) (Photo: Web site of Rep. Gordon.)
(CNSNews.com) - Despite the recession, House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) introduced an expanded agenda for his committee for 2009, which includes developing clean energy technologies, a proposed expansion of NASA space missions and restoring gender equality to America’s laboratories. It is estimated to cost $1 billion a year in new spending. Gordon said that while he does not know precisely how much the agenda will cost in total, he hopes the proposed $1 billion a year will be paid for, in part, by the stimulus package President-elect Barack Obama has outlined for early 2009. Obama’s plan is estimated to cost nearly $1 trillion over two years. “It’s just a matter of funding what we pass,” said Gordon at a Capitol Hill press conference on Thursday. “We provide the administration with the blueprints and all they have to do is write the check.” A statement given to reporters by Gordon’s office called for action and described both “a climate in crisis” and a “foundering economy” as problems that need “solving.”

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