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Science 24 March 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5768, p. 1693
DOI: 10.1126/science.311.5768.1693b
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Biomedical researchers cheered last week after the Senate agreed that health and education programs should get $7 billion more next year. Although the number is part of a nonbinding budget resolution, the vote makes it more likely that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will receive an increase rather than the level $28.6 billion budget that President George W. Bush requested for 2007. Many thousands of scientists sent letters supporting the resolution, according to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. The next move is up to twin congressional spending committees. Scientists may once again have to take up their pens, however, as the House has been less generous toward NIH in recent years than has the Senate.




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