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January 4 update:
- Congress finally completed work on FY 2006 appropriations
on December 22. The Senate gave final approval to
its last two appropriations bills on the 21st, but
modified the Defense bill and sent it back to the
House for approval on the 22nd. President Bush signed
the bills into law on December 30, bringing the FY
2006 budget process to a close almost three months
into the fiscal year. The AAAS
wrap-up of final FY 2006 appropriations is now
available. AAAS estimates that the federal R&D
portfolio totals $134.8 billion in 2006, but 97 percent
of the $2.2 billion increase goes to DOD weapons development
and NASA space exploration R&D. Funding for all
other federal R&D programs barely increases. Congressional
appropriations for basic and applied research total
$57.0 billion, an increase of $1.0 billion or 1.8
percent over 2005. But NASA applied research accounts
for a majority of the increase, leaving most agency
research portfolios with modest increases falling
short of inflation. One growth area is R&D
earmarks, which total a record $2.4 billion in
the FY 2006 appropriations bills, up 13 percent from
2005.
- The Departments of Agriculture,
Commerce, Defense,
Energy, Homeland
Security, Transportation,
Veterans Affairs, and the
Interior, and NASA,
NSF, NIH,
and EPA all have their final
budgets. Congress included in the final Defense bill
an across-the-board cut of 1 percent for all discretionary
programs except the VA, which trims R&D funding
even for agencies whose budgets had already been signed
into law.
- After one agreement was rejected in November, congressional
negotiators have finalized a second agreement on the
NIH budget. Combined with
an across-the-board cut, the NIH budget would decline
in 2006 for the first time in 36 years. The DOD
R&D portfolio would increase to $73.0 billion,
up 2.1 percent. DOD funding of basic research would
decline, but DOD "S&T" funding would
exceed 3 percent of the total DOD budget with a total
of $13.8 billion.
* - 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
|
|
Name of bill (Bill
number)
|
Major R&D agencies
|
House
Action |
Senate
Action |
Conference done |
House |
Senate |
President
signed
(Public Law #) |
1. Defense* (HR 2863)
|
DOD |
O
6/20 |
O
10/7 |
O
12/18 |
O
12/19* |
O
12/21* |
O
12/30*
(P.L. 109-148) |
2. Labor, HHS, Education** (HR
3010)
|
NIH, Education |
O
6/24 |
O
10/27 |
O
12/13 ** |
O
12/14 |
O
12/21 |
O
12/30
(P.L. 109-149) |
3. Science, State, Justice, Commerce
(HR 2862)
|
NASA, NSF, Commerce |
O
6/16
(Commerce,
NSF, NASA) |
O
9/15
(Commerce,
NSF, NASA)
|
O 11/7
(Commerce,
NSF, NASA)
|
O
11/9
(Commerce,
NSF, NASA) |
O
11/16
(Commerce,
NSF, NASA) |
O
11/22 (P.L. 109-108) |
4. Energy & Water (HR
2419)
|
DOE |
O
5/24 |
O
6/30 |
O
11/7 |
O
11/9 |
O
11/14 |
O
11/19
(P.L. 109-103) |
5. Agriculture (HR
2744)
|
USDA |
O
6/8 |
O
9/22 |
O
10/26 |
O
10/28 |
O
11/3 |
O
11/10
(P.L. 109-97) |
| 6. Interior and Env. (HR
2361) |
Interior, EPA |
O
5/19
(Interior,
EPA) |
O
6/29
(Interior,
EPA) |
O
7/26
(Interior,
EPA) |
O
7/28
(Interior,
EPA) |
O
7/29
(Interior,
EPA) |
O
8/2
(P.L. 109-54) |
7. Homeland Security (HR
2360)
|
DHS |
O
5/17 |
O
7/14 |
O
9/29 |
O
10/6 |
O
10/7 |
O
10/18
(P.L. 109-90) |
8. Military Quality of Life &
Veterans (HR 2528)
|
VA, some DOD |
O
5/26 |
O
9/22 |
O
11/17 |
O
11/18 |
O
11/18 |
O
11/30
(P.L. 109-114) |
|
9. Transportation / Treasury ^^ (HR
3058)
|
DOT |
O
6/30 |
O
10/20 |
O
11/17 |
O
11/18 |
O
11/18 |
O
11/30
(P.L. 109-115) |
| 10. Foreign Operations (HR
3057) |
AID
|
O
6/28 |
O
7/20 |
O 11/1 |
O
11/4 |
O
11/10 |
O
11/14
(P.L. 109-102) |
11. Legislative Branch (HR
2985) ^
|
- -
|
O
6/22 |
O
6/30 |
O 7/26 |
O
7/28 |
O
7/29 |
O
8/2
(P.L. 109-55) |
The bill names above are the Senate names; the House
bills have similar, but not identical, names and jurisdictions.
R&D jurisdictions are the same in both the House
and Senate.
* - On December 21, the Senate approved the Defense
conference report, but amended it. The House approved
the amended conference report on December 22 after approving
the original report on December 19.
** - On November 17, the House rejected the first version
of the conference report. On December 12, appropriators
agreed on a second conference report, which was approved
by the House and Senate.
^ - In the House, this bill was drafted by the full
Appropriations Committee (no subcommittee).
^^ - The Senate attached a separate DC appropriations
bill to its Transportation-Treasury bill. The House
combined the two bills from the beginning.
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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