A Senate Appropriations subcommittee has recommended a bigger increase than President Bush requested for scientific-research spending next year by the U.S. Department of Energy. The agency’s Office of Science would get $4.24-billion in the 2007 fiscal year, an increase of nearly 18 percent over this year’s level. President Bush had sought a 14-percent increase as part of his plan, dubbed the American Competitiveness Initiative, to improve scientific research and science education in order to maintain the country’s economic edge (The Chronicle, February 7). The House of Representatives passed a version of the bill in May that met the president’s request. The Energy Department is the largest federal source of funds for academic research in physics.
June 28, 2006
Senate Panel Approves More Funds for Energy Research Than Bush Sought
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