Abstract

While the attention of much of the scientific community was focused on the House's vote to deny fiscal 1993 funding, by a surprisingly wide margin, for one of the so-called big projects—the Super-conducting Super Collider—the budget requests for numerous science programs were also being cut back, sometimes to below current spending levels. And it's unlikely that money saved by cutting the SSC or any of the other big projects will find its way into the pockets of little science. This year it's not a question of funding big or little science, but big or no science. Although the Senate has yet to act on any of the fiscal 1993 money bills, its Appropriations Committee is working with the same, very limited amount of money that the House counterpart had to dole out in fashioning next year's federal budget. A longtime follower of trends in federal funding sees this year ...

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