September 11, 1998

Senate Panel Backs Big Increase for NIH, but Would Limit Money for Student Aid

STEPHEN BURD and PAULETTE WALKER CAMPBELL

By STEPHEN BURD and PAULETTE WALKER CAMPBELL

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a bill last week that would increase the budget of the National Institutes of Health by 14.7 per cent, or $2-billion, for fiscal 1999.

But members of the panel were not nearly so generous when it came to federal student-aid programs. While the committee voted to save a number of financial-aid programs that the House of

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