May 20, 2005

House Panel Approves Cuts in Security Funds

By KELLY FIELD

The U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Committee approved two bills last week that would cut spending on homeland-security scholarships and research centers by 9 percent, and provide no increase in funds for the federal arts and humanities endowments. The bills passed on voice votes.

One of the measures, a spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security for the 2006 fiscal year, would provide $63.6-million for the Office of University Programs, equal to President Bush's

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