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...report on the the matter, the GAO said the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circumvented the law in January by directing the NIH--the largest source of Harvard's research funding--to finally only 5000 of the 5500 renewable one-year grants for which Congress had appropriated Fiscal Year 1986 money...
Under federal law, the executive branch--of which the OMB is a part--is not permitted to impound appropriations without Congressional approval...
Nevertheless, OMB ordered that 650 of the proposals receive a full two or three years of funding this year instead of 1500 additional year-long grants...
...negative," says one of David Stockman's men down at OMB. "The Democrats are all fighting to avoid change. They cannot get increases in funds, so they are all battling to block the cuts proposed. We have a system for inertia." That...
Ginsburg said yesterday he plans to resume his academic career when his term at the OMB expires. However, if he remains in Washington more than two years, he cannot return to his Harvard position without a vote of the law faculty...