June 24, 2005

House Panel Moves to Spare Education Programs That Bush Wants to Cut

By KELLY FIELD

A House appropriations panel has approved a bill that would spare several higher-education programs that President Bush has proposed eliminating.

The measure, adopted this month by the House Appropriations Committee's education subcommittee, would also increase the maximum Pell Grant by $50, half as much as President Bush had wanted, and would provide for only a slight increase in spending on the National Institutes of Health. In addition, the bill would wipe out a $4.3-billion

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