Abstract
It's over. The first session of the 106th Congress, that is. With the fiscal 2000 federal budget finally in place and some other business to do with taxes and the environment wrapped up, Congress has adjourned for the year and headed home. There was some good news and some bad news for the chemical community in the actions taken during those final hours. Funding for four research-supporting agencies—the National Institutes of Health and the Departments of Commerce, Energy, and the Interior—was wrapped up in H.R. 3194, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000. For researchers supported by NIH, the news is better than it might have been, but it's still not great. NIH's budget is up 15% to $17.9 billion. However, Congress told NIH that it could not spend $3.0 billion of that until Sept. 29, 2000, the penultimate day of the fiscal year. Originally, Congress had put $7.5 billion aside (C&EN, Nov. 8, page 17). For ...
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