Science:
The three federal agencies that support the vast majority of
academic research in the US—NSF, the National Institutes
of Health, and the Department of Energy's Office of
Science—would receive no more money in 2011 than in 2010
under a spending bill that narrowly passed the US House of
Representatives on Wednesday. The House's vote would hold
discretionary spending to 2010 levels and is $46 billion below
what President Obama had requested for 2011. The House bill
contains a few winners for the research community, however,
including space science at NASA, the new Advanced Research
Projects AgencyâEnergy
(ARPAâE) at the Department of Energy, and
competitive agriculture research. The Senate is working on a
different version that would provide small increases for the
three federal agencies that were overlooked in the House
bill.
