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Sidebars: National Institutes of Health : Summary of Appropriations Research and Development Intestments Federal science and technology agencies are holding their own in President Clinton's recently proposed fiscal year 1998 budget, which allocates $75.5 billion-a 2.2 percent increase-to government-sponsored R&D. The National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation are slated to receive modest overall increases, approximately 2.6 percent and 3 percent, respectively. As the

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Sidebars: National Institutes of Health : Summary of Appropriations
Research and Development Intestments

FRUSTRATED: NSF’s Neal Lane is glad his agency would receive a budget boost for FY 1998 but frustrated that the raise continues a flat spending trend.

"Last year's [budget] turbulence doesn't exist this year," says Rep. George E. Brown, Jr. (D-Calif.), ranking minority member of the House Science Committee, referring to the often rancorous FY 1997 budget discussions in Congress. "There's a general feeling that the R&D budget this year is much better than could have been expected."

The president's proposed 2.6 percent increase, or $337 million, for NIH would bring its budget to $13.1 billion, up from $12.7 billion in FY 1997. The NIH raise would support an additional 939 research grants and includes another $90 million installment for its 250-bed clinical center under construction. Under the proposal, NSF fared slightly better than NIH. The agency's ...

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