June 24, 2005
House Defends Agriculture Earmarks
Spending on the U.S. Agriculture Department's main program for academic research would creep upward, by just under 1 percent, in the 2006 fiscal year under a plan approved this month by the U.S. House of Representatives.
The overall budget for research and education in the agency's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service would rise to $661.7-million in the fiscal year, which begins on October 1.
The House lawmakers differed with the executive branch on how
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