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BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - Monday, President Barack Obama unveiled his $3.8 trillion budget with an emphasis on job creation. The Obama plan includes more than $1.2 trillion in deficit spending. It also calls for some cuts, including NASA's $100 billion plan to return astronauts to the Moon through the Constellation program. That could be bad news for South Mississippi. Stennis Space Center is scheduled to test the new J-X2 engines that will send the Ares rocket to the Moon.

Congressman Gene Taylor plans to fight for the program and Stennis' role in the testing. "I support NASA and I support the testing being done at Stennis," Rep. Taylor said. The congressman does have an open mind on the Constellation project.

"Let's look at the cost benefit ratio. If it makes sense to have unmanned missions, I can live with that." Taylor has strong feelings on the administration's $3.8 trillion budget. "I plan to vote against it. We need to tighten our belts."

The phased missile-defense setup announced last September abandons former President George W. Bush's plans for ground-based interceptors and radar in Eastern Europe. In the early stages it relies on ships stationed in European and Middle Eastern waters, outfitted with the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system and Raytheon's [RTN] Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors, to protect U.S. allies and deployed troops from Iranian missiles.

House Armed Services Seapower subcommittee Chairman Gene Taylor (D-Miss.) has said the Navy may need to buy more BMD-outfitted DDG-51 destroyers.

In Hancock County, the prospect of repayment has been a black cloud hanging over the heads of government leaders, who in many cases did not have the money for repayment.
That changed recently, when FEMA announced a new rule allowing governments to apply for loan forgiveness. In Hancock, the new program means millions of dollars in relief for some local governments.

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor credited House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, for a law that finally authorized forgiveness after the Bush Administration and previous House leadership refused to budge on the issue. "He really went to bat for the people of the Gulf Coast," said Taylor, D-Miss.

In Hancock County, the prospect of repayment has been a black cloud hanging over the heads of government leaders, who in many cases did not have the money for repayment. That changed recently, when FEMA announced a new rule allowing governments to apply for loan forgiveness.

U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor credited House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina Democrat, for a law that finally authorized forgiveness after the Bush Administration and previous House leadership refused to budge on the issue. "He really went to bat for the people of the Gulf Coast," said Taylor, D-Miss.

NAFTA Superhighway

FICTION: The Federal Government is building a NAFTA Superhighway that connects Mexico to Canada through the United States.

FACT: There is no federal government plan to build a NAFTA Superhighway.

Welfare Cell Phones/Obama-Phones
Fiction: People on welfare are getting free cell phones or Obama-Phones.

Fact: The Federal government is not giving away free cell phones.