On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:44 AM, David Inouye <[email protected]> wrote:
> Science Accounts Hit Hard by Planned House Budget Cuts > > by Jeffrey Mervis on 3 February 2011, 4:18 PM > SCIENCE magazine > > Today, House of Representatives Republicans unveiled a long-awaited < > http://appropriations.house.gov/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=256>plan > to reduce federal spending this year that includes double-digit cuts in the > panels that fund most of civilian basic research. It is $74 billion lower > than President Barack Obama's 2011 request, submitted 1 year ago and never > enacted, and is divided between $56 billion in civilian spending and $18 > billion for security expenditures, including $9 billion from the military. > > The spending plan comes in the form of an allocation to each of the 12 > appropriations subcommittees that dole out the $3.4 trillion federal budget. > The panel that controls the budgets of the National Science Foundation, > NASA, and the Department of Commerce would get 16% less money than in 2010 > and 11% less than President Obama has requested for the current, 2011 fiscal > year. Note this means President Obama had also requested cuts to the total money allocated for NSF, NASA, and the Department of Commerce (though conceivably he could have requested more for the NSF and NASA and less for the Department of Commerce). > The panel that oversees the Department of Energy would receive 10% less > than in 2010 and 15% less than the president's request. The panel that > oversees the National Institutes of Health and the Education Department > would receive 8% less than the president's request and 4% less than in 2010. > So for these two President Obama had requested an increase over 2010. --Ruchira Ruchira S. Datta <http://www.ruchiradatta.com/>, Ph.D Research Specialist <http://phylogenomics.berkeley.edu/members/ruchira/> Berkeley Phylogenomics Group <http://phylogenomics.berkeley.edu/> 324D Stanley Hall <http://qb3.org/facilities/buildings/stanley> Department of Bioengineering <http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/> California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) <http://www.qb3.org/> University of California <http://www.ucop.edu/> Berkeley <http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/>, CA <http://gocalif.ca.gov/> 94720-3220 Phone: (510) 642-6642 Email: [email protected] <//[email protected]> > However, the plan does not specify spending levels for individual agencies, > which are currently being funded at 2010 levels in a continuing resolution > (CR) that expires on 4 March. > > These so-called 302b allocations, announced by the House Appropriations > Committee, are expected to be voted on by the full House the week of 14 > February. The goal is final passage by Congress before the CR expires. Not > coincidentally, Obama submits his 2012 budget request to Congress on 14 > February. >
