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Senate Science Committee Moves Legislation Forward
Last week, in contrast to the mid-April House and Senate approval of a budget resolution that is projected to result in a double digit decline in federal R&D spending by 2004, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation approved the Federal Research Investment Act, which would double federal basic research funding over an eleven-year period. S. 296 establishes a long-term plan for federal funding of fundamental, scientific, and pre-competitive engineering.
Also last week, the Committee approved the NASA reauthorization bill for fiscal years (FY) 2000 through 2002. S. 342 would authorize $13.4 billion for FY 2000, $13.8 billion in FY 2001, and $13.9 billion in FY 2002. Senators Conrad Burns (R-MT) and John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) offered an amendment to provide three-year funding for the NASA Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR). The adopted funding authorizations include $10 million in FY 2000, $15 million in FY 2001 and $20 million in FY 2003.
Text of both S. 296 and S. 342 can be found on the Committee's web site: http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/