A spending panel in the U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill that would provide no increase in funds for the National Archives and Records Administration in the 2007 fiscal year and a slight increase for the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, which subsidizes efforts to publish presidential papers and other important documents in American history.

Under the bill, approved this week by the House Appropriations Committee, the archives would receive $338-million, an amount equal to President Bush’s budget request and to the level in the 2006 fiscal year (The Chronicle, February 17). The records commission would get $7.5-million, including $5.5-million for grants and $2-million for staffing. President Bush had proposed eliminating the commission, which received $7.2-million in the current fiscal year.