September 11, 1998
Senate Panel Backs Big Increase for NIH, but Would Limit Money for Student Aid
By STEPHEN BURD and PAULETTE WALKER CAMPBELLThe 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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