Part of President Bush’s American Competitiveness Initiative, which calls for doubling spending on physical-sciences research within selected federal agencies over a decade, moved a little closer to reality today. The Appropriations Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that includes $4.1-billion for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science for the 2007 fiscal year, which begins on October 1. That amount represents the full 14-percent increase that the Bush administration requested in its budget, released in February (The Chronicle, February 7).
May 17, 2006
House Budgeters Give Bush's Research Proposal Full Funds
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