July 27, 2007

In Brief

NIBBLING EARMARKS: Spending on the principal federal program for academic research and education in agriculture would be cut by 7 percent, to about $627.4-million, under a bill approved this month by a U.S. House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee. Although details of the bill were not available, the plan appeared to reflect a pledge by the House Democratic leadership to slice by half the amount spent in the 2007-8 fiscal year on noncompetitively awarded earmarks. For the 2006-7

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