Spending Bills Advance in Congress

Spending bills to finance the Agriculture, Defense, and Homeland Security Departments in the 2005 fiscal year, including the academic research that they sponsor, advanced last month in Congress.

The House of Representatives passed a 2005 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security that would provide $70-million for university programs and fellowships, the same as in the 2004 fiscal year but $40-million more than President Bush requested in his budget proposal released in

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