Senate Passes Science-Slim Budget &mdash; Some Fear Funding Crisis
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The U.S. senate passes its version of a budget bill with deep cuts for science. Politicians blame the Iraq war, and wonder about the effects on research facilities like Fermilab, the United States' premier particle accelerator, and the International Linear Collider.
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Working behind closed doors, House and Senate leaders struggled Thursday to resolve differences on a $388 billion spending bill that would squeeze dozens of domestic programs and favor a few.
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A must-pass bill covering about one-sixth of the federal budget swept through the House on Wednesday. A sizable chunk of Republicans joined virtually all Democrats in approving spending increases for education, veterans and the AIDS battle in Africa.
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The Senate approved a $32 billion homeland security funding bill Monday after days of political breakdown over a proposed federal milk subsidies extension.
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The Illinois Senate voted Friday to spend state tax dollars on embryonic stem cell research, despite objections from those who argue the research destroys human life
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The Senate on Thursday passed and sent to President George W. Bush a temporary spending measure to keep the federal government running through November 16, giving Democrats and Republicans time to work out budget disagreements.
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The Senate decided on Thursday to raise its committees' allowances, prompting Senate Rules Committee Chairman Trent Lott to note that lawmakers were off to a poor start after pledging to curtail spending.
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Ridiculed as the "do-nothing" 109th U.S. Congress, the Senate and U.S. House of Representatives on Monday begin a brief session to wrap up whatever work they can, install a new defense secretary and approve money to prevent a shutdown of government services.
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The 81-15 roll call Wednesday by which the Senate voted to pass a $464 billion spending bill.
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From physicists, there is cautious applause for President Bushâs proposed 2009 budget, under which research in the physical sciences would receive a hefty boost.
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Scientists who seek an alternative to the fossil-fuel theory got a Senate hearing this week.
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With the new budget year only weeks away, the House has passed a &#36;142.5 billion spending bill that funds some 500 education, health and job training programs.
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In an emotional session marked by tales of death and hope, the Senate debated on Monday whether the government should pay for new embryonic stem cell research, pushing a measure to do it toward passage and President Bush&#039;s first veto.
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In one of the shortest session in its history, the Senate's final session of the year lasted a total of 12 seconds Monday.
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A group of U.S. senators on Tuesday sought $300 million in U.S. spending to combat tuberculosis while new tests confirmed that the U.S. man at the center of an international TB alarm is not highly infectious.
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The Senate passed a bill early Friday to increase aid to college students.
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WASHINGTON -- The US Senate yesterday hammered out a long-awaited bill that paves the way for generic versions of the world's most expensive drugs, while providing a 12-year financial cushion for local biotechnology leaders who worry that such lower-priced drugs would hurt sales of their name-brand products.