"There are people who, I am sure, were looking at the new administration and saying, 'Now we're going to get these large increases in the budgets of the agencies that support basic research,'" says Albert H. Teich, director for science policy at the Washington, D.C.-based American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). "But the overall budget climate is constrained, and a president has to work within the constraints. Given the constraints, he has not done too badly, although I am concerned about the out years." Out-year budget projections are those extending more than two years ahead.
Like Republican rival Bob Dole, Clinton has not made science and technology a centerpiece of his campaign strategy. But in a faxed response to several questions posed by The Scientist, the campaign states that the president and administration officials "have and will continue to make public statements on science." However, it adds that ...
