House Committee Approves Increases for Pell and NIH, Big Cut for Reading First

By DAVID GLENN and JEFFREY BRAINARD

Washington

Spending for the Pell Grant program and biomedical research would rise but the Reading First program's budget would be slashed under a spending plan for 2008 approved on Wednesday by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations.

The $151.5-billion...