HOUSE FY2007 BUDGET RESOLUTION

Shortly before 1 a.m. on May 18, 2006, the House of Representatives adopted its FY2007 Budget Resolution on a vote of 218 to 210, after moderate Republicans secured an agreement with House leaders to increase funding for health and education programs.

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JOINT HOUSE - SENATE BUDGET RESOLUTION

Despite both chambers having passed budget resolutions, a final agreement between the Senate and House appears out of reach because of significant differences in funding priorities. The House budget would allow more than $7 billion in extra domestic funding, but the money would have to be shifted from other accounts, in keeping with President Bush’s bottom-line limits on discretionary spending.   More Details >

FY2007 APPROPRIATIONS ALLOCATIONS

The annual congressional budget resolution is a nonbinding blueprint that sets the broad parameters for upcoming tax and appropriations bills. This year, with no ambitious new tax cuts or benefit curbs on the Republican agenda, the budget serves chiefly to set an overall limit on the eleven upcoming appropriations bills.    More Details >

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

In an effort to make policymakers aware of the importance of biomedical research, FASEB’s Office of Public Affairs is coordinating its 2nd Annual “Capitol Hill Day,” which is being held in conjunction with the Science Policy Committee Face-to-Face and Board Meetings on June 4-6.    More Details >

BILLS

Included in this section: House Appropriations Committee Provides DOE Office of Science With 14% Increase; FASEB Responds to Amendment to Innovation Bill that Excludes Biological Sciences; The National Institute of Food & Agriculture (NIFA); Agriculture Appropriations Bill Does Not Include Animal Dealer Ban; and FASEB Urges Senate to Move Forward on Stem Cell Bill.     More Details > 

RECENT HEARINGS

Included in this section: Senate L/HHS Appropriations Hearing on NIH’s FY2007 Budget; House Committee Discusses Anti-Animal Rights Extremism Bill; and Senate Commerce, Science, Transportation Subcommittee holds FY 2007

NSF Budget Hearing.   More Details >

ADMINISTRATION & FEDERAL AGENCY REPORT

In a tremendous victory for FASEB and scientific research, the Department of Commerce has announced they will form a committee of experts to reconsider their proposal to highly restrict the access of foreign nationals to laboratory equipment and other technologies.    More Details >

CONGRESSIONAL SCHEDULE

The House and Senate will be in recess from May 29 through June 2 for the Memorial Day District Work Period.   

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