APPROPRIATIONS- PRESIDENT SIGNS FY2007 JOINT FUNDING RESOLUTION

On February 14, 2007, the Senate approved the House-passed version of the FY2007 Joint Funding resolution (H.J. Res. 20) by a vote of 81-15, and on February 15, 2007, President Bush signed the $463.5 billion spending package to fund much of the Federal government for the remainder of FY2007. The spending measure filled the gap left by the collapse of the budget process under Republican rule last fall. The Joint Funding resolution provides $28.9 billion for NIH in FY2007, an increase of $620 million (2.2 percent) over FY2006. NSF received $5.9 billion for FY2007, and DOE’s Office of Science FY2007 budget is $3.8 billion. The USDA’s National Research Initiative’s (NRI) budget is $190 million, and the VA Medical Research Program was funded at $412 million in FY2007.

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ACTIVITIES INVOLVING PRESIDENT'S FY08 BUDGET REQUEST

FASEB Signs-on to Congressional Letter Asking for a 6.7% Increase for NIH

Secretary Leavitt Testifies Before House and Senate Committees

House Appropriations Hearing on NSF

FASEB Attends Seminar on President’s FY2008 Budget Request
 

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INSIDE (The Beltway) SCOOP
- Jon Retzlaff, Legislative Director

With Congress finally completing its work on the FY2007 appropriations bills (albeit four months into FY2007), it has now turned its attention to the FY2008 budget process. During the past few weeks, and continuing for the next month and a half, Congress is listening to Administration officials as they testify on behalf of the President’s budget requests for FY2008. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has testified before the House and Senate Budget Committees and the House Labor-Health-Education appropriations subcommittee. Dr. Arden L. Bement, Director, National Science Foundation (NSF), has testified before the House Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittee, and Dr. Elias Zerhouni is scheduled to testify on March 6, 2007, in front of House Labor-HHS-Education appropriations subcommittee members.

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CONGRESSIONAL MEETINGS

FASEB Attends Breakfast Meeting with Representative Walsh
On March 1, 2007, Jon Retzlaff, FASEB’s Director of Legislative Relations, attended a breakfast meeting with House Labor-Health-Education appropriations subcommittee ranking member Jim Walsh (R-NY).

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CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS

On February 28, 2007, the House Appropriations subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies sponsored a hearing on science funding. Norman R. Augustine, Retired Chairman and CEO, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Dr. Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science, testified. Mr. Augustine chaired a National Academy of Sciences panel that examined what "actions policy makers could take to enhance the science and technology enterprise so that the United States can successfully compete, prosper and be secure in the global community of the 21st Century."

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UPCOMING HEARINGS

House Appropriations Subcommittee to Hold Hearings on FY08 Budget

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CONGRESSIONAL SCHEDULE

The House and Senate are in session.

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