June 30, 2000

House Backs Funds for NSF and NASA, but None for AmeriCorps, Ensuring a Veto

By RON SOUTHWICK

The U.S. House of Representatives voted last week to give modest increases to the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the 2001 fiscal year. The spending increases were less than the House Appropriations Committee had recommended, and much smaller than President Clinton had sought.

However, G.O.P. leaders may have rendered those differences moot -- and guaranteed a presidential veto of the spending bill -- by offering no money for the

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