A slippery slope for science; despite its upbeat rhetoric about 1997, White House budget projections through 2000 paint a grim picture for science and technology

Article Abstract:

A compromise between the Clinton administration and the congressional leadership calls for a reduction in domestic discretionary spending of almost $300 billion between 1996 and 2002. The discretionary spending fund is the source of the entire $34-billion federal civilian research and development budget.

Analysis, Government spending policy

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Smoother road for R&D spending?

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Pres Clinton's budget request for 1998 includes modest increases for research and development, as both Congress and the White House have reversed their attitudes toward science funding. The 1997 request included steep declines until 2000. Proposed budgets for NIH, NSF and other agencies are outlined.

Finance, Clinton, Bill, United States. National Institutes of Health, United States. Congress, United States. National Science Foundation

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Grim budgets spur call to action: science policy

Article Abstract:

Pres Clinton's science advisor Jack Gibbons and Senate Budget Committee chmn Pete Domenici, speaking at the annual science policy colloquium, agreed that present levels of R&D funding would have to come from cuts elsewhere in the budget. Each assailed the other party's proposed cuts.

Forecasts and trends, Gibbons, John H., Domenici, Pete V.

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