New NHTSA Budget Approved By House Says NO To Obama's Request To Triple Funding

 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration chief Mark Rosekind on Tuesday sounded the alarm after a House panel approved a spending bill that doesn’t boost the agency’s budget to investigate auto safety defects.

Last week, a Republican-led House appropriations subcommittee approved a spending bill that doesn’t adopt the Obama administration’s request to triple NHTSA’s defect budget and double staffing. It essentially held the agency’s budget at the current level.

“We’re pretty concerned. You can’t keep talking about wanting to make things safer and more efficient,” Rosekind said in an interview Tuesday on the sidelines of an event at an elementary school. “We’re going to do everything we can internally... but without certain resources we’re not going to get the level (of performance) that everyone expects.”

The House Appropriations Committee is expected to take up the 2016 $55.3 billion Transportation, Housing and Urban Development spending bill next week.

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MDarringer - 5/6/2015 8:59:28 PM

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AMEN! Enough of Obama's fiscal idiocy.

Terry989 - 5/7/2015 3:20:51 AM

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And in further news for 2015, Republicans in both the House and Senate vote to add an additional $38 billion in military spending through a war account not subject to statutory spending restrictions.

leej - 5/7/2015 9:38:37 AM

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house Republicans = people who get paid by us to do absolutely nothing

skytop - 5/8/2015 8:27:32 AM

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The insane barry obamma is ONLY about tax and spend, tax and spend and spend and spend and spend.
The country is collapsing under the lack of leadership and profligate spending.

Terry989 - 5/8/2015 11:45:05 AM

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Let's have a meaningful discussion after you and Darringer are done messaging each others prostrates.