Senate Bill Modestly Increases Student-Aid Spending

Most student-aid programs would get no budget increase in 2008 and spending on biomedical research would rise below the inflation rate under a bill approved last week by the Senate Appropriations Committee.

The bill, which covers spending for the fiscal year that begins on October 1, keeps the maximum Pell Grant award at this year's level of $4,310, well below the $4,700 proposed in a bill approved this month by a House of Representatives appropriations subcommittee. The chairman of

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