The following fact needs to become as well known as the inaccurate
statement that has been racing around the net for the last week:
The House Budget voted on last Thursday did not even mention NSF.
Anyone who wishes to verify this statement need only use the Web to
connect to Thomas (http://thomas.loc.gov/) to search the contents of
Thursday's House Budget Resolution (H. Con. Res. 67) with global Find. The
search terms "NSF" and "National Science Foundation" will return nothing.
The search term "science" will return a category called "(3) General
Science, Space, and Technology (250)" with an aggregate amount of $16.7
billion in FY 1996, declining to $14.9 billion in FY 2002. No more detailed
breakdown is in this section of the bill.
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| Gerald S. Wasserman |
| codelab@psych.purdue.edu |
| Sensory Coding Laboratory |
| Dept. of Psychological Sciences |
| Purdue University |
| West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1364 |
| 317-494-7671 (voice) |
| 317-496-1264 (fax) |
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