June 15, 2001

Senate Appropriations Panel's New Chairwoman Calls for More Money for the NSF

By RON SOUTHWICK

Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski, the new chairwoman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that drafts the National Science Foundation's budget, said at a hearing last week that the agency needed more money than President Bush had proposed for the 2002 fiscal year.

Senator Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat, became chairwoman last week, after the Democratic takeover of the Senate. Sen. James M. Jeffords's decision to leave the Republican Party to become an independent tilted control to the

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