US House Approves Over $300 Million For Science Agencies

Posted by Soulskill on Friday June 20, 2008 @06:13PM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

sciencehabit notes that the US House of Representatives has allotted an additional $337.5 million in budget increases divided amongst four science agencies. NASA, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science will each receive an additional $62.5 million, and the National Institutes of Health will receive $150 million. The money will help to offset the decision to reduce budget increases earlier this year. Early plans for the money include the training of new math and science teachers, and another reprieve for FermiLab's financial troubles.

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$300 million sounds impressive by Jonathan · 2008-06-20 18:24 · Score: 5, Interesting

But it's not. I'm on grants totalling over $1 million myself. If we could avoid land wars in Asia (so presciently predicted by Wallace Shawn in _The_Princess_Bride_), we could have billions to spend on science.