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FY12 Spending Debate Comes to a Close

Congress completed, and the President signed into law, the FY12 appropriations bill. The $915 billion spending bill wraps up the remaining nine appropriations measures. The bill provides funding for programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National
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Rep. Rush Holt’s (D-NJ) Editorial in Most Recent Science

Science 16 September 2011:
Vol. 333 no. 6049 p. 1549
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211494
EDITORIAL:

Dueling Visions for Science

Rush Holt
Rush Holt is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District and has a doctoral degree in physics.

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Congress Close to Agreement on FY2008 Funding for the NIH and NSF

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Congress is close to finalizing the year-end appropriations bill, set to fund all government agencies (except the Pentagon) for Fiscal Year 2008. Under the so-called Omnibus Appropriations bill, the NIH will receive $29.229 billion, up 1.3%, a $329 million increase over FY07. The bill also proposes to fund NSF at $6.07 billion, up 2.5% from FY07's $5.92 billion level.