House Votes to Authorize $6.9-Billion in Spending on Technology Research

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill by voice vote last week that would authorize Congress to spend $6.9-billion over five years on basic information-technology research.

The bill, H.R. 2086, would nearly double the federal government's spending on information-technology research by 2004, compared with this year's spending.

About $155-million of the additional money would be authorized for a series of $1-million grants from the National Science Foundation for colleges

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