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DOE Office of Science Gets Half of Requested Increase from Senate Subcommittee
A $108.3 million increase would be nothing to refuse in a tight budget scenario, except Congress has set a goal to double the $5 billion Office of Science (OS) budget and the figure is slightly less than half of the $218 million increase the Obama administration requested for FY 11. The information is taken from the recent action by the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development on the Department of Energy's 2011 budget. Within OS, the $2.2 billion energy efficiency and renewable energy programs would bump up by $45 million, far below the Administration requested increase of $113 million.
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