OSTP Shares Views on R&D Budget Battle

Saying Congress is threatening to stall "our progress toward our shared national goals and toward balance in a healthy R&D portfolio," Neil Lane, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, has issued a mid-summer status report on the FY 2001 R&D appropriations. The report outlines the effect of the current appropriation scenario on the President's civilian R&D goals, collectively marketed as the 21st Century Research Fund. An agency-by-agency break out is provided of congressional funding levels versus the President's FY 2001 requests. The brief report and accompanying letter from Lane can be found at: http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/EOP/OSTP/html/00810.html