House Votes To Cut Back Overall Federal R&D Funding In 1995: ▪ Appropriations for NIH, NSF, and NIST would rise, but total R&D funding would decline 2% to $77.9 billion

By burning a little midnight oil the House managed to complete its work on all of the fiscal 1995 appropriations bills that provide research and development funding before members left Washington for the Fourth of July recess. Working within some very stringent 1995 budget caps, the House found it necessary to reduce overall funding for R&D agencies by 2% to $77.9 billion. The bills now go to the Senate, but there isn't much hope that it will be any more generous than the House where research funding is concerned. In many cases, the Senate is working under even lower budget caps than the House was. Some bright spots do exist in the House version of the R&D budget. For instance, funding for the National Institute of Standards & Technology would rise 62% to $842 million, and the National Science Foundation's total budget would be up 12% to $3.1 billion. However, those increases are more than ...