Senate Appropriators Propose a Flat Pell Award and a 3.7% Gain for the NIH in 2006

By JEFFREY BRAINARD, STEPHEN BURD, and JEFFREY SELINGO

Washington

The maximum Pell Grant would remain level for the fourth year in a row and the budget of the National Institutes of Health would rise 3.7 percent under a spending bill for 2006 approved by a U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Tuesday.

In addition, the...