Analysts say funding cuts represent a shift in Congress away from traditionally 'reflexive' support for scientific initiatives
Senate and House committees surprised many science-minded Americans last month when-after months of rumored cuts-they decided to sustain funding for nondefense medical and basic research through 1996. Few analysts were surprised, however, when the committees began to slash funds for energy and environmental research and federal technology-transfer programs.
PLAYER: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif) has a new take on science funding.
The Senate has voted on all but one of the 11 science-related appropriations bills. The remaining bill funds the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services, the parent agency of the National Institutes of Health. Going into the October recess, the measure was stalled by a Senate deadlock over a provision that would rescind a presidential order prohibiting the government from doing business with companies that permanently replace strikers. ...
