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The White House on Tuesday spelled out $40 million in emergency economic adjustment assistance to help Florida get over the end of space shuttle operations and changes in the moon program.
Texans in Congress were not happy. "Good for Florida. What about Texas?" asked Democratic Rep. Al Green. Rep. Gene Green, a Houston Democrat, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, also criticized the White House plan.
The White House released a blueprint for spending $5 million to launch a commercial spaceflight technical center in Florida to enable the Federal Aviation Administration to support commercial space launch and re-entry activities.
The remaining $35 million will be awarded in competitive grants. The 72-mile coastal region that includes NASA's Kennedy Space Center could lose up to 9,000 NASA-related jobs.
WASHINGTON
Shirley Sherrod makes peace with NAACP
Ousted Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod is publicly making peace with the NAACP after the group's president condemned her for misconstrued comments she made about race. Sherrod and NAACP president Ben Jealous will appear together at a rural development conference in Alabama on Saturday. Jealous traveled to Sherrod's house in Georgia two weeks ago to apologize once more for being "hoodwinked" as he called it by a conservative blogger who posted an edited clip of comments she made in a speech. The clip made her speech appear divisive, and the USDA asked her to resign.
Fox News parent gives $1M to GOP group
The parent company of the Fox News Channel has donated $1 million to the Republican Governors Association and helped the GOP group more than double its fundraising in the second quarter of the year. Government filings show that the RGA raised more than $19 million during the second quarter, compared to more than $9 million in the first quarter. The parent company of Fox News, News America Inc., is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate News Corp.
Elsewhere
Boston: U.S. Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro, who granted asylum to President Barack Obama's aunt, Zeituni Onyango, ruled she deserved to stay in the United States because a federal government official leaked her status to a news organization, making her a target if she were sent back to her native Kenya
Seattle: Sonic booms that sounded when Air National Guard F-15s scrambled after an amphibious plane violated the airspace around Air Force One startled many people in the Puget Sound area Tuesday.
Philadelphia: Federal prosecutors will not file charges against the Lower Merion School District or its employees over the use of software to remotely monitor students, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger said Tuesday.
Austin, Texas: State lawmakers criticized Republican state Rep. Joe Driver Tuesday for billing both his campaign and taxpayers for the same travel expenses.
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