The worst fears of U.S. scientists were realized last week when the House of Representatives approved a budget that would trim roughly $5 billion from current federal spending on research. The so-called continuing resolution for the last 7 months of the 2011 fiscal year would lower overall discretionary spending by $61 billion, taking billion-dollar bites out of the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and Department of Energy's Office of Science (see p. 997). House Republicans were especially keen to derail presidential initiatives in education, energy, and climate research.
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