1998 U.S. Federal Budget: House budget authorization includes similar funding, different priorities

Abstract

In mid‐April, the Science Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives reviewed a set of bills to authorize research funding for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In a turnabout from the 104th Congress, the committee authorized more spending than was requested by the Clinton Administration for fiscal year 1998 (Eos, February 18). But the committee also expressed its own ideas—some of them conflicting with the President's—about what U.S. science priorities ought to be.