Administration's Fiscal Research Articles

Administration's Fiscal Year 2013 revenue proposals

Administration's Fiscal Year 2013 revenue proposals

A Summary of the Individual and Corporate Tax Proposals in the Obama Administration's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget

This paper summarizes the corporate and individual tax proposals in the Obama Administration's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget.

A Summary of the Energy Tax Provisions in the Obama Administration's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget

A Summary of the Energy Tax Provisions in the Obama Administration's Fiscal Year 2012 Budget

Millions of Americans Go Without Needed Drug Abuse Treatment

Millions of Americans Go Without Needed Drug Abuse Treatment

Proposed U.S. budget request reduces funding for some science agencies

Federal non‐defense research and development (R&D) would receive a small boost under the Bush Administration's Fiscal Year 2007 budget request, which was released on 6 February. However, science conducted and funded by agencies not highlighted in the president's American Competitiveness Initiative would get only small increases or even large cuts if these budgets are approved by Congress (see Eos 87(7) 2006).House of Representatives Science Committee Ranking Member Rep. Bart Gordon (D‐Tenn.) said, “There appear to be cuts in science and technology research that more than offset the targeted increases of the president's competitiveness initiative.”

Medicaid reform and the 109th congress

Medicaid, the largest insurance program in the United States, has become a major budget issue in the 109th Congress. President George W. Bush began the discussion earlier this year with $60 billion in proposed federal Medicaid reductions as part of the administration's Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 budget. Within the last few months, Congress has begun to debate its own plans for Medicaid spending reductions and what, if any, policy changes would accompany these cuts.

Coordinated Services Key to Solving Chronic Homelessness

Coordinated Services Key to Solving Chronic Homelessness

NOAA should embrace Landsat

“If only NOAA would embrace the Landsat satellite system, rather than trying to abandon it, then NOAA would be taking a giant step toward establishing its proper leadership role in global environmental science.” This statement was made by James H. Scheuer (D‐N.Y.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research and Environment at a hearing on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Fiscal Year 1992 budget, on April 11.Responding to a report by the Committee on Earth and Environmental Sciences (CEES), which stated that Landsat data is critical to the understanding of global warming, Scheuer is perplexed that NOAA would not want to fund Landsat 7 and that NOAA can have towering leadership and support of global climate research but tepid support of the Landsat part of the program. NOAA requested a 66% increase in funding for FY92 for the Global Climate Change Research program ($31 million total). Operational costs of Landsat 4 and 5, currently in orbit, and Landsat 6, scheduled for launch in May 1992, are part of NOAA's FY92 budget. Total cost, said NOAA comptroller, Rodney Weiher, will be almost $19 million, of which $9.15 million will come out of the NOAA budget and the remaining $9 million from other agencies.

Science spending budget set

The Senate Budget Committee took an important first step in setting federal science spending levels for the fiscal year starting on October 1 by sending to the full Senate a concurrent budget resolution. This measure increases the science budget over spending levels for the current fiscal year, although reduces it from the Bush Administration's Fiscal Year 1991 request.