President Obama requested funding for the NNMI as part of the 2013 budget, but the budget has not been approved by Congress.

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Chinese journalists were not allowed into the Kennedy Space Center for the May 16th space-shuttle launch as the result of a little-noticed provision in the federal budget approved by Congress in April.

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In fact, the sequester formula preserves and codifies the spending priorities already previously approved by the Congress and Mr. Obama (as embedded in the Budget Control Act of 2011).

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The cuts are to the generous (and notional) budget approved by Congress.

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After White House and congressional leaders reached agreement on the fiscal 2011 budget, Congress approved another short-term spending bill to keep the government funded through Thursday at midnight.

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The lower house of Congress, Peronist-controlled until December 10th, on November 28th had approved, almost unchanged, the 1998 budget, itself almost unchanged from the version prepared before the Asian blizzard struck in October.

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Congress went into recess earlier this month, having neither approved the 2006 budget proposed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo nor agreed on an alternative.

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Earlier this spring, Congress approved a stop-gap budget law that would, among other things, ease budget cuts for the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Homeland Security, Justice, and Veterans Affairs.

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