Hopes dim for DOE science budget reprieve

摘要

Raymond Orbach, DOE undersecretary for science, told reporters that “a presidential decision” will determine whether additional funding for DOE’s Office of Science will be included in a supplemental appropriations measure the White House will send to Capitol Hill sometime in the coming weeks. Such requests are supposed to cover emergency spending only—in this case, military operations in Iraq—though members of Congress in the past have attached nonemergency riders to the must-pass bill.