News & Views item - December 2009

 

 

US Congress Passes a 2010 Spending Bill giving for Several U.S. Science Agencies. (December 19, 2009)

In the view of Science's Jeffrey Mervis the windfall of the Obama administration's economic stimulus package "postponed until next year most of the usual battles over each [science] agency's annual appropriations.

 

The one agency so far omitted from the 2010 budget allocation -- the Department of Defence Department.

 

SOURCE: US CONGRESS, AAAS