Science Takes a Congressional Hit in the US, Bob Park Has His Say. (June 28, 2008)

The professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, Bob Park, in 1983 was recruited to open a Washington Office of the American Physical Society. In 2003 he returned to the University of Maryland full time but continues his weekly online column What's New.

A segment from this week's column:

SCIENCE BUDGET: SUPPLEMENTAL BILL IS A DISAPOINTMENT

The feeble position of science in America today was evident in the $186 billion supplemental war spending bill approved by the House last week. The last hope for those science agencies devastated by the appropriation, the supplemental bill that went to the Senate included only $400M for science, less than half what was sought. The Senate, which previously approved three times that, is expected to accept the House figure. By now thoroughly domesticated, the science community meekly expressed its gratitude.