March 12, 1999

Lawmakers Criticize Plan to Make Agriculture-Research Grants More Competitive

By SARA HEBEL

Members of Congress last week attacked a Clinton Administration plan to put more agriculture-research money into competitive grants and less into traditional programs in which funds are insured under a formula.

Taking up the President's proposed budget for the Agriculture Department, both Republicans and Democrats on a House of Representatives Appropriations panel said land-grant universities must continue

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