Bush vetoes NIH funding bill
This morning (November 13), President Bush vetoed a bill aiming to linkurl:increase;https://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/45169/ 2008 NIH funding by $1.4 billon, from $28.6 billion linkurl:in 2007;https://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/49077/ to $30 billion next year. The bill outlined a total of $150.7 billion which includes funding for the departments of Labor and Education. Bush previously threatened to veto the bill, which both houses of Congress linkurl:passed;https://www.the-scientis
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From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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