AMENDMENT DESCRIPTION:
Amendment terminates funding for the Superconducting Super Collider Project by deleting $400 million appropriated for the project.
AMENDMENT PURPOSE:
An amendment to terminate the Superconducting Super Collider Project by eliminating $400 million of the funding for the project, retaining $220 million to pay for costs relating to termination of the project.
That's true, a majority of Congressional Republicans voted to kill the SSC...but so did the overwhelming majority of Dems as well. It's interesting to note that Henry Waxman voted to kill the SSC, as did Dennis Hastert...whose district encompasses Fermilab.