July 28, 2006

Senate Panel Approves 8-Percent Spending Increase for NSF

By SAM KEAN

The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved a substantial budget increase for the National Science Foundation.

Under a spending bill approved by the committee, the NSF budget for the 2007 fiscal year, which begins on October 1, would rise $410-million, an 8-percent jump, to just under $6-billion.

Most of that increase, $314-million, would be directed toward research and related activities, and $46-million of the increase would be spent on large-scale research equipment and

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