A House subcommittee has passed a recommendation for funding several planetary space exploration programs, including JPL's Mars exploration programs:
"We were able to obtain $75 million more than the President requested in the budget, and this will help keep the Mars scientific laboratory on schedule and, I hope, give the pathway to launch the next Mars vehicle in 2013," said [Congressman Adam] Schiff, a member of the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies bill.
