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Congress debates new satellite plan

The Obama administration plans to reorganise and more than double the annual budget for a troubled weather satellite program that is five years behind schedule and more than $7 billion over its original cost estimate.
But the administration first must convince a skeptical Congress that its plan will be enough to fix the project. Lawmakers need to approve a White House request to increase the program's yearly budget by more than $678 million to $1.1 billion in 2011.
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