October 29, 1999

House and Senate Negotiators Shape a Bill to Increase NIH Funds

By STEPHEN BURD

But threat looms of an across-the-board cut that could hurt student aid and research

Negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate last week were completing work on a bill that would increase the budget of the National Institutes of Health by $2.3-billion, to $17.9-billion, and raise the maximum Pell Grant by $175, to $3,300, for fiscal 2000.

The bill would add substantially to President Clinton's budget request for those popular programs. In February, the

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