Budgetary negotiations in Congress are tedious affairs, but can also be enlightening. We’ve been following the Congressional reporters at E&E News and caught this line in a recent report about the House budget proposal: “The budget also calls for unspecified savings from a Commerce Department reorganization, which would include moving NOAA into the Interior Department.” One of the reporters on the story, Kellie Lunney , explains that the idea of moving the National Oceanic and Atmospheric