President's Budget Request Research Articles

User fees planned to speed FDA drug review

The concept of drug companies paying user fees to the Food & Drug Administration to ensure faster FDA approval of new drugs is moving closer to reality. With newly won support from the pharmaceutical industry—a turnaround from previous stances—Congress is preparing legislation to institute the user fees. Testifying last week at a hearing by the House Subcommittee on Health & the Environment, FDA commissioner David A. Kessler said user fees are needed because traditional sources of funding are no longer enough to do with reasonable speed the job that needs to be done. This year, although FDA was one of only a few agencies to receive an increase over fiscal 1992 appropriations, our projected budget [as approved by Congress for fiscal 1993] is still $13 million under the President's budget request. Kessler notes that funds from user fees are included in the Administration's fiscal 1993 budget proposal. Preliminary plans being reviewed by the House and ...

Best NOAA budget ever, Knauss says

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's budget request of $1.7 billion for fiscal year 1993 is “the best budget we have presented to date,” said John Knauss, Under Secretary for Oceans and Atmosphere, U.S. Department of Commerce. It is an increase of 7.8% over fiscal 1992. NOAA's proposed budget focuses on four major areas: the modernization of the National Weather Service, improving predictions of global change, understanding coastal ocean processes, and managing marine fisheries.The budget “reflects our conviction that we are working to assure the president's belief in the interconnectedness of the environment and the economy,” particularly in the weather service and fisheries programs, said Knauss, testifying before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary and Related Agencies on April 9.

Earthquake funding restored

Funding levels for the U.S. Geological Survey's part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program for FY92 have been restored by the House and a Senate subcommittee. The president's budget request for FY92 was only $37.3 million, lower than the $54.5 million authorized by Congress for FY91. Earlier this year the House agreed on restoring $10 million to the program. Some AGU members have been trying to see the full $17.2 million difference restored. It is reported that the Senate will agree to give $15 million to the program.When Congress reconvenes in September the full Senate will vote on the Department of Interior and Related Agencies appropriations bill (HR2686). After that, the bill will go to a joint conference committee, where differences between the House and Senate will be resolved before the bill is passed along to the president.

USGS budget focuses on mapping, water, hazards

The U.S. Geological Survey's Fiscal Year 1992 budget request represents a “balanced approach to addressing the significant Earth science issues confronting our nation during the 1990s in the context of the overall budget constraints,” said Dallas Peck, USGS director, testifying before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies on March 12.The proposal totals $563.1 million for FY92, a decrease from the FY91 enacted level of $570.7 million. This is an increase of $56.5 over the FY91 President's budget request.

NSF, NASA Budget Update

Despite the $46 million cut from the administration's budget request for the National Science Foundation, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed legislation (H.R. 5158) that would increase NSF's budget for Fiscal Year 1991 by 12%, or $256.4 million above the current budget.

President's Budget Request for NCI

President's Budget Request for NCI Get access Andree Jacobs-Perkins Andree Jacobs-Perkins Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Volume 82, Issue 5, 7 March 1990, Page 351, https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/82.5.351 Published: 07 March 1990

NASA big winner in budget

The President's budget request for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration contains a dramatic increase of 24%, or $2.8 billion, over Fiscal Year 1990, bringing the total figure for FY 1991 to $15.1 billion. Of the $4.5 billion the administration has proposed in increases for civilian and defense R&D, NASA receives $2 billion. The largest single increase in the NASA budget is slated for Space Station Freedom, which increases by $700 million (36%) to a total of $2.6 billion. Other big increases go to the lunar/Mars initiative, which is up 47% to a total of $408 million, and the first element of NASA's Mission to Planet Earth, the Earth Observing System (EOS), to receive $264 million.

House passes NOAA budget

After increasing program levels anywhere from 4% to 112% above those specified in the Reagan Administration's budget request, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed its version of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) budget for fiscal year (FY) 1986. The bill would effectively restore most of the cuts in Operations, Research, and Facilities (ORF, NOAA's research core) that were specified in the President's budget (see Table 1).

The President' Page: A matter of perspective

The President's budget for Fiscal Year 1972 calls for increases over Fiscal Year 1971 in total federal authorized obligations and estimated expenditures for research and development. Moreover, the budget requests increased support for research and development at colleges and universities. Coming after a period of anguished debate over an apparent national disenchantment with science and technology, the President's budget request is most heartening.

COSTS OF FEDERAL HEALTH PROGRAMS

To the Editor:— In the Washington News ofThe Journal, Feb. 9, 1952, page 16, appears a table entitled Costs of Federal Health Programs, in which the National Science Foundation is listed. The associated fiscal items are given as $3,500,000 for the Congressional Appropriation for fiscal 1952 and $15,000,000 for the President's Budget Request for fiscal 1953. These figures are correct in that they represent the foundation's total 1952 appropriation and 1953 budget request. They are completely inaccurate, however, in the context, since only a fraction of our total budget for research support and fellowships can properly be allocated to medical sciences or even to biological and medical sciences. During fiscal 1952 perhaps 10%, or $350,000, of our total appropriation can properly be assigned to medicine. Corresponding estimates for fiscal 1953 are not available.