Congress Adopts Austere Budget for Research and Student Aid

In a flurry of last-minute activity before its annual holiday break, Congress completed work last month on two major appropriations bills that determine how much the federal government will spend on university research, student aid, and relief to those colleges that were in the path of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

If there was any Christmas spirit in the Capitol, it was not readily apparent in the spending bills adopted there. If signed into law by President Bush, as was expected as of

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