June 3, 2005

Energy Science Bill Gets House Backing

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

The Office of Science in the U.S. Department of Energy would get a budget increase next year of 1.8 percent instead of a cut proposed by President Bush, under an appropriations bill passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives. An appropriations subcommittee approved a separate bill that would give a 3.1-percent increase to the National Science Foundation and a small cut for scientific research financed by NASA.

The figure for the Office of Science offered some relief for

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