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December 15 update:
- On December 8, Congress and President Bush finalized
the FY 2005 budget, which provides a record-setting
$132.2 billion federal R&D investment in FY 2005,
a $6.0 billion or 4.8 percent increase. On November
20, Congress drafted a FY 2005 omnibus spending bill
and approved it hours later. But procedural glitches
to correct some provisions in the bill delayed final
congressional approval until December 6; President
Bush signed the bill into law on December 8.
The AAAS analysis of R&D
in the omnibus bill and other final FY 2005 appropriations
bills is now available. This analysis is a preview
of the publication Congressional
Action on R&D in the FY 2005 Budget, now
available online. Some highlights of R&D in FY
2005 are:
- The nondefense R&D investment rises by $1.2
billion or 2.2 percent to $57.2 billion, better
than the 1 percent increase overall for domestic
programs but far short of increases in previous
years.
- The NIH budget increases
just 2 percent and many other nondefense R&D
agencies are held to similarly modest increases
just ahead of inflation. Although the NASA
budget increases by 4.5 percent to $16.1 billion,
the bulk of the increase goes to returning the Space
Shuttle to flight, leaving NASA R&D up just
2 percent. NSF's R&D funding,
however, falls in FY 2005.
- Among the winners, USDA
R&D does far better than expected at $2.4
billion, a 7.8 percent increase in contrast to a
requested cut because of new food safety and animal
health R&D investments and record-breaking R&D
earmarks. NOAA R&D
climbs 10.7 percent because of congressional support
for the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy's recommendations
to expand federal support of ocean-related R&D
- The total federal research investment (basic and
applied) increases 2.5 percent to an estimated $57.0
billion because of large increases in the defense
and homeland security research portfolios. Growth
in other agencies' research portfolios slows down
considerably or reverses compared to recent years.
- R&D earmarks total
$2.1 billion, up significantly from $1.9 billion
in the FY 2004 budget.
- The U.S. Treasury reports that the federal budget
deficit for FY 2004 (ended Sept. 30) was an all-time
high of $413 billion, up from $375 billion last year.
Continued government borrowing required Congress and
the President to raise the federal debt limit from
$7.4 trillion to $8.2 trillion last week.
* - reported out of Appropriations
Committee; O - approved;
X - rejected (click on the links
to see the latest R&D Funding Update for each agency) |
Conference report
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Name of bill (Bill number)
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Major R&D agencies
|
House Action |
Senate
Action |
Conference done |
House |
Senate |
President
signed
(Public Law #) |
1. Defense (HR 4613, S 2559)
|
DOD |
O
6/22 |
O
6/24 |
O
7/20 |
O
7/22 |
O
7/22 |
O
8/5
(P.L. 108-287) |
2. VA-HUD (HR 5041, S 2825)
|
NASA, NSF, EPA |
* 7/22
(NASA, NSF,
EPA) |
* 9/21
(NASA, NSF,
EPA) |
O 11/20^
(NASA,
NSF, EPA)
|
O
11/20^
(NASA,
NSF, EPA)
|
O
11/20^
(NASA,
NSF, EPA)
|
O
12/8^
(NASA,
NSF, EPA)
(P.L. 108-447) |
3. Labor-HHS (HR 5006, S 2810)
|
NIH, Education |
O
9/9 |
*
9/15 |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
12/8^
(P.L. 108-447) |
4. Energy-Water (HR 4614)
|
Most of DOE |
O
6/25 |
^^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
12/8^
(P.L. 108-447) |
5. Commerce-Justice (HR 4754, S 2809)
|
Commerce |
O
7/8 |
*
9/15 |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
12/8^
(P.L. 108-447) |
6. Interior (HR 4568, S 2804)
|
Interior, some DOE |
O
6/17 |
*
9/14 |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
12/8^
(P.L. 108-447) |
7. Agriculture (HR 4766, S 2803)
|
USDA |
O
7/13 |
*
9/14 |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
12/8^
(P.L. 108-447) |
8. Homeland Security (HR 4567, S 2537)
|
DHS |
O
6/18 |
O
9/14 |
O
10/9 |
O
10/9 |
O
10/11 |
O
10/18
(P.L. 108-334) |
|
9. Transportation / Treasury (HR 5025, S 2806)
|
DOT |
O
9/22 |
*
9/14 |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
12/8^
(P.L. 108-447) |
| 10. Foreign Operations (HR 4818) |
AID
|
O
7/15 |
O
9/23 |
O 11/20^ |
O 11/20^ |
O 11/20^ |
O
12/8^
(P.L. 108-447) |
11. Military Construction (HR 4837, S 2674)
|
- -
|
O 7/22 |
O
9/20 |
O 10/9 |
O
10/9 |
O
10/11 |
O
10/13
(P.L. 108-324) |
12. Leg. Branch (HR 4755, S
2666)
|
- -
|
O
7/12 |
O
9/21 |
O 11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
11/20^ |
O
12/8^
(P.L. 108-447) |
13. District of Columbia (HR 4850, S 2826)
|
- -
|
O
7/20 |
O
9/22 |
O 10/5 |
O
10/6 |
O
10/6 |
O
10/18
(P.L. 108-335) |
^ The conference report of HR 4818 (House Report 108-792)
is the FY 2005 omnibus appropriations bill containing
final versions of 9 of the 13 appropriations bills.
Congress later approved H.Con.Res. 528 to make corrections
to the omnibus, including a change to the across-the-board
cut from 0.83 percent to 0.80 percent. The corrected
omnibus bill became Public Law 108-447 on December 8.
^^ The Senate Appropriations Committee never drafted
its version of the Energy-Water bill. The omnibus bill
contains the final version of the bill..
To find the text of these bills, go to THOMAS
(Library of Congress) and type the bill number into the
search engine at the top of the page.
-AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program
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