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发帖数: 1269 | 1 好消息啊！ cut is restored.
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/07/senate-spendi
A Senate spending panel today approved a bill giving the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) $31 billion in 2014, a figure that would restore this year'
s painful 5% cut from sequestration and give the agency a small increase
over its 2012 budget.
The mandatory across-the-board federal cuts known as sequestration slashed $
1.55 billion from NIH's budget this year and will result in belt-tightening
at labs with ongoing grants as well as hundreds fewer new grants than in
2012. The measure approved today by the Senate appropriations Subcommittee
on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
includes $30.955 billion for NIH. That figure would provide a 1% boost of $
307 million over NIH's 2013 budget (before sequestration), which was
essentially the same as in 2012.
An online summary states that the bill includes $40 million that the
president requested for NIH's proposed BRAIN brain-mapping initiative. The
full Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to vote on the bill on
Thursday, at which point more details will become available.
Although the increase falls short of the $31.3 billion requested by
President Barack Obama, Jennifer Zeitzer, legislative relations director for
the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), said
that her group is "thrilled" with the figure. "It's far better than the
current situation and it's a move in the right direction," she says. FASEB
has been pushing for $32 billion for NIH in 2014 to shore up the agency's
budget after a decade of flat funding and losses to inflation.
NIH has strong support from Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Barbara
Mikulski (D-MD), who held a press conference yesterday to discuss NIH at
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Mikulski said that she is determined
to reverse "reckless cuts to American biomedical research." NIH Director
Francis Collins was on hand as well and warned: "We're putting an entire
generation of U.S. scientists at risk and our own nation at risk as well"
with the sequester cuts. Hopkins officials said that the sequester has cost
the university $38 million in NIH funding this year and will force the
layoff of dozens of staff members.
Although the Senate number is relatively good news for NIH, the agency's
prospects in the House of Representatives are gloomy. Because House leaders
want to follow through on plans to impose additional sequestration cuts, the
corresponding House appropriations subcommittee has a much smaller pot of
money for its Labor/HHS bill. That means that NIH's budget could potentially
be slashed by nearly 20% in any House bill.
The House subcommittee has not yet scheduled a markup of its bill, however,
and onlookers expect it may not ever do so. Instead, they predict that the
two chambers will hammer out NIH's final 2014 budget as part of a government
-wide spending bill months from now, long after the fiscal year begins on 1
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: 好消息啊！ cut is restored.
: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2013/07/senate-spendi
: A Senate spending panel today approved a bill giving the National Institutes
: of Health (NIH) $31 billion in 2014, a figure that would restore this year'
: s painful 5% cut from sequestration and give the agency a small increase
: over its 2012 budget.
: The mandatory across-the-board federal cuts known as sequestration slashed $
: 1.55 billion from NIH's budget this year and will result in belt-tightening
: at labs with ongoing grants as well as hundreds fewer new grants than in
: 2012. The measure approved today by the Senate appropriations Subcommittee
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