March 4, 2005

Senators Assail Bush's NSF Budget

By JEFFREY BRAINARD

Two senior U.S. senators have denounced President Bush's proposal for a small budget increase for the National Science Foundation in 2006. The chairman of a Senate appropriations subcommittee also sharply prodded the agency's leader to show faster progress in improving its management practices, especially of large-scale research facilities.

Sen. Christopher S. (Kit) Bond, a Missouri Republican who heads the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees the agency, said at a hearing

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