Word: budgeting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed cuts are part of a budget plan drafted by House and Senate leaders. That plan has already been approved by the House, meaning reductions in funding to all science agencies but the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Senate is currently debating the measure, and is expected to vote on it today...
...compromise budget bill currently before Congress--which promises less tax cuts than a sweeping Republican measure vetoed recently by President Clinton--still would slash funding for research work in both the sciences and the humanities...
Rudenstine and the other presidents are lobbying against these proposed cuts and pushing instead for an increase in research funding--to come out of the projected budget surplus...
...while cuts are feared in all areas, universities say they're most concerned about budget reductions in physical science research...
...lobby legislators and White House officials, including Chief of Staff John Podesta. We hope that Congress and the Clinton Administration will listen to the universities and maintain, if not increase, current research efforts. The programs are threatened by the federal spending caps enacted by Congress during the 1997 budget agreement, which allowed President Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich to claim victory while delaying the hardest choices for a few election cycles. The result is that even in a boom economy with a government surplus, many vital programs will have to be cut for the spending caps to hold...