Budget Agreement Boosts US Science (sciencemag.org)

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:10AM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

sciencehabit writes: The National Institutes of Health (NIH) leads the way among U.S science agencies getting increases in the final 2016 spending bill released today. NIH is the winner in absolute dollars. It gets a bump of $2 billion, or 6.6%, from its current budget of $30.1 billion. Spending on science programs at NASA would grow by 6.6%, to $5.6 billion, and rise by 5.6% in the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, to $5.35 billion. The National Science Foundation would receive an additional $119 million, or 1.6%, to $7.46 billion, and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy would get a 6% boost, to $291 million. NASA in particular got great allocations for planetary science and commercial crew.

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Re:Great! by Anonymous Coward · 2015-12-16 04:26 · Score: 5, Interesting

Now all they need to do is pass the thing. Does anyone know what kind of poison pill has been inserted yet, which will cause somebody to get off the boat and sink it? We all know there is one...
They actually somewhat compromised, hoping Obama will sign the damn thing.
Republicans gave up defunding Planned Parenthood.
Democrats pulled out proposed additional gun control.
Republicans gave in on not adding vetting for Syrian refugees.
Possibly some others.
Sounds like they actually want this passed.
I'm sure it's full of pork, but aren't they all.