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NSF & Congress
Congressional Highlights
NSF CONGRESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS - 106th CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION
October 12, 2000
Final VA-HUD Agreement Passed by the Senate
On Thursday, October 12, 2000 the Senate passed H.R.
4635 - the final Senate VA-HUD and Independent Agencies
appropriations legislation for FY 2001. The vote was
87-8. The legislation contains final congressional
recommendations for the NSF in FY 2001 even though
the legislation is not considered an official House-Senate
conference report due to procedural reasons. It is
expected that the House will quickly take up the agreement
and pass it without amendment. Full Highlight
September 13, 2000
Senate Appropriations Committee Marks up NSF Budget
The Senate Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on
VA-HUD and Independent Agencies met this morning to
mark up their FY 2001 bill, followed by a full Senate
Appropriations Committee mark up in the afternoon.
The Senate mark would provide NSF with an increase
of $400 million over FY 2000, for a total for $4.297
billion. This represents an increase of 10.26%. Full
Highlight
May 24, 2000
House VA, HUD, Independent Agencies FY 01 Mark-up for NSF
At a May 23rd session, after commenting in his opening
remarks that the NSF research, major research equipment,
and education and human resources accounts were "deserving
of greater support," Chairman James Walsh preceded
with the mark-up of the VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
FY 2001 appropriations bill. Other members of the
committee similarly bemoaned the tight budget allocations
provided to the subcommittee, which were approximately
$2.2 billion less than a freeze from last year's figure.
Full Highlight
May 4, 2000
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on VA/HUD Hearing on NSF Appropriations/OSTP
Chairman Kit Bond (R-M) opened the hearing on NSF's
budget request by noting that "federal investment
in science is critical for our economic well-being,"
and that he is "intrigued" by the Administration's FY01
request for NSF. The requested 17.3 percent increase
of $675 million would raise the foundation's budget
to $4.57 billion. "There is nothing I would rather
do," he said, than to convince his colleagues to support
NSF's "vastly needed" request. Full Highlight
NSF CONGRESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS - 106th CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION
October 18, 1999
Senate Passes FY 2000
Conference Report for VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
By a vote of 93-5, the Senate passed the final version
the FY 2000 VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Appropriations
Act on October 15. This legislation includes funding
for the VA, HUD, EPA, NASA, national service as well
as the National Science Foundation. The House passed
the compromise bill on October 14th. President Clinton
has indicated that he will sign the bill. Full
Highlight
October 14, 1999
House Passes FY 2000
Conference Report for VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
On October 14, the House of Representatives debated
and passed the conference report -- H.Rept 106-379
-- accompanying H.R. 2684, FY 2000 VA, HUD, and Independent
Agencies Appropriations Act. This legislation includes
funding for the VA, HUD, EPA, NASA, national service
as well as the National Science Foundation. The Senate
is expected to consider the conference report early
next week and the Clinton administration has expressed
support for the bill. Full
Highlight
October 7, 1999
House and Senate Conferees
Meet
On October 7, House and Senate conferees met to resolve
their differences on the funding for agencies and
programs in the FY 2000 VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies
Appropriations Act. This legislation includes funding
for the VA, HUD, EPA, NASA, national service as well
as the National Science Foundation. Full
Highlight
July 27, 1999
House Appropriations Subcommittee Mark-Up
Late on the afternoon of July 26th, the House Appropriations
Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent agencies marked
up the FY 2000 appropriatons bill for the various
agencies under the subcommittee's jurisdiction. This
includes NSF, NASA, VA, HUD, EPA and numerous other
independent agencies. As a result of the caps on spending
brought on by the Balanced Budget Act, the subcommittee
was forced to deal with a severe reduction in domestic
discretionary spending from the level it had to work
with last year. Full Highlight
July 9, 1999
Congress Returns After Recess
Congress returns to work on Monday, July 12th after
a week-long Fourth of July recess. The House will
consider legislation under the suspension calendar
on Monday and then return to work on FY 2000 Interior
and Military Construction appropriations bills on
Tuesday and for the balance of the week. The Senate
will begin the week by considering Patient's Bill
of Rights legislation. Full
Highlight
March 22, 1999
Budget Round-Up
Last week, the House and Senate Committees reported
out budget resolutions for FY2000. Both the House
and the Senate plans are similar, but differences
remain especially regarding the treatment of Medicare.
Speaker of the House Hastert and Senate Majority Leader
Lott have both said that a final budget agreement
between the House and the Senate will be passed by
April 15. Full Highlight
For past years' highlights, see NSF & Congress Archive.
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