NSF Budget Wars

The National Science Foundation, one of the gargantuan funding agencies of the US government is coming under increasing pressure to find out where its money is going to come from. Clinton is attempting to raise the amount of money going in to the Foundation's budget, but the monies to pay for that may not be forthcoming. Oddly enough, much of the money is tied to the tobacco settlement, and despite the budget surplus no one is quite sure how to get it the money that it needs.