May 12, 2000

Key Senators Vow to Double NSF Budget

By RON SOUTHWICK

Two influential senators said last week that they not only would fight for the National Science Foundation's spending request for the 2001 fiscal year, but would help the agency double its budget within five years.

Sen. Christopher S. Bond, a Missouri Republican who heads the Senate appropriations subcommittee that recommends the agency's budget, said at a hearing that he would do his best to help the N.S.F. secure its proposed 17-percent budget increase for

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