Perhaps most significant, the spending outline would "transfer space station management reporting from the Johnson Space Center in Texas to NASA headquarters until a new program management plan is developed and approved, " according to the proposed budget.

CNN: Bush budget boosts Mars, douses Pluto, Earth

Democrats blasted Romney for supporting a student loan interest rate extension when he'd previously backed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's proposed cuts to the federal Pell Grant program.

CNN: Romney's confusing course correction

Mr. Obama, addressing a Congress riven by disputes over how to rein in budget deficits, rejected broad changes to Medicare, the federal health program, as some Republicans have proposed.

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