US House Introduces Alternative Spending Bills for 2018

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Update (July 20): This week (July 18), a US Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on energy and water voted to increase spending for the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) by 8 percent, reports Science. On July 12, however, the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations voted to cut the agency altogether in its version of the bill.

Notably, the Senate spending bill adds an additional 3 percent to the DOE’s Office of Science, $158 million more than the House bill had outlined for the DOE’s research arm.

As Science reports, House and Senate appropriators “are headed to a ...