July 4, 2003

Congressional Panels Vote to Hold Down Spending on Student Aid and NIH

By JEFFREY BRAINARD and MICHAEL ARNONE

Appropriations panels in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives approved no increases last week for most student-aid programs in the 2004 fiscal year and only a modest rise for the National Institutes of Health, ending years of large jumps for biomedical research.

The small increases in both bills reflected efforts by Republican lawmakers, who control both houses of Congress, to rein in growth in the federal deficit. The deficit is projected to balloon to $246-billion this

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