February 21, 2003
Congress Completes Budget With Increases for Pell Grants and the NIH
Congress last week ended an unusually long delay for a federal budget, finally hammering out a spending plan for the 2003 fiscal year, now four months old. The plan, which was expected to pass, would complete a five-year effort to double the budget of the National Institutes of Health, while providing a small, $50 increase in the maximum Pell Grant award, to $4,050.
The 2003 fiscal year began on October 1, but lawmakers had made little progress toward consensus because of partisan
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