I ended up feeling badly about
their relative lack of progress, so I'd step up my support for them and they'd end up getting as much as the others.
That program was established by NOAA in 2009, in part as a response to the pummeling the U.S. received from a number of hurricanes during the early years of that decade and
the relative lack of progress made in improving forecasts up to that point.
Again as Davis said openly in the Commons when explaining
the relative lack of progress «it's about the money... they're holding out for more money».