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DeLay is credited with almost single handedly securing NASA’s congressional budget victories of the past two years and had vowed during a March 30 appropriations hearing to fight to get NASA more funding for 2007 than the $16.792 billion requested by the White House.

Less than $17 billion? That's all? ;')

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Less than $17 billion?

Reminds me of a figure regarding supposedly fighting AIDS in Africa...