February 24, 2009

Delayed Appropriations Bill Would Increase Pell Grant and Research Funds

By Kelly Field

Washington

With the ink barely dry on the $787-billion economic-stimulus bill, Congress is moving on to an overdue piece of budget business: a $410-billion appropriations measure for the current fiscal year, which began in October.

The bill, which Democratic leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced on Monday, would finance education, research, and other domestic programs until October 1, when the 2010 fiscal year will begin. It would provide $30.3-billion for the National

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