August 6, 2004
Budget Cuts Proposed for 2 Science Agencies
Faced with tight spending limits, an appropriations subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives approved legislation last month that would cut spending at the National Science Foundation by 2 percent and trim the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's budget by 1.5 percent.
The bill would provide $5.5-billion for the NSF in the 2005 fiscal year, which begins on October 1. That is $111-million below the 2004 spending level and $278-million shy of the Bush administration's
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