AAAS S&T Forum Opens With Lively R&D Budget Debate

American Association for the Advancement of Science:

"Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) accused the current Administration of favoring 'vending-machine science,' focused on quick, low-cost results. Marburger said that the President's proposed FY 2005 budget would represent a 44-percent increase in federal R&D over the past four-year term. Kei Koizumi, director of the AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program, said that the President's proposed FY 2005 budget, combined with his plan to cut the deficit in half within five years, would mean cuts in R&D funding for all but three federal agencies by 2009. "