Abstract
Congress has performed its part of the budget-balancing act. The numbers are now in and the analysts are hard at work striving to understand what they mean. But the real budget battles are just beginning. Those battles will be fierce, and the outlook for federal research and development spending is far from rosy, says Kei Koizumi, an analyst who tracks R&D budget trends for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The numbers, of course, pertain to those in the budget agreement worked out between the Clinton Administration and Republican congressional leaders on May 15. The House and Senate budget committees quickly went to work filling in details, and late last week both houses of Congress had approved very similar resolutions embodying those details, leaving themselves free to leave town for a 10-day Memorial Day recess. Meanwhile, various interest groups were striving to understand what the figures really meant for their constituencies. For the ...
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