No NASA Conference Travel in 2009 (?)

Steinn Sigurdsson over at Dynamics of Cats speculates on the meaning and effect of some odd wording in the 2008 NASA Authorization bill.

Normally I'd dismiss this as a misinterpretation of an ambiguously worded bit of legal text. But as I recently attended a meeting at a NASA center where the funding source for the coffee break had become an issue, I have come to realize that weird stuff like this can happen. Still, let us hope it is still a misinterpretation.