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Lff/S/Lllc'fftl Consortium of Social Science Associations ©COSSA lff/S/lllC'fftl" l'PDl'fll Volume XVIlI Number 5 March 22 1999 NIH OFFICIALS APPEAR BEFORE NEW FACES AT NSF APPROPRIATION CONGRESSIONAL APPROPRIATORS M HEARING IN HOUSE J./5 Congressional Appropriations Committees want With a new Chairman, Representative James to complete their appropriations hearings by April Walsh (R-NY) and a new Ranking Member, 22, 1999, instead of June 11, as happened last year. Representative Alan Mollohan (D-WV), the House Thus, officials from the National Institutes of Health VA, HUD, Independent Agencies Appropriations (NIH) have already appeared before both the House Subcommittee heard new National Science and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Labor, Foundation Director Rita Colwell defend NSF's FY Health and Human Services, chaired by 2000 budget proposal at a hearing on March 4. The Representative John Porter (R-IL) and Senator Arlen proposed budget calls for a 5. 8 percent increase to a Specter (R-PA), respectively. total of $3.954 billion. On February 23, NIH Director Harold Varmus Unlike hearings in previous years, Chairman and all of the NIH Directors appeared in a single Walsh did not offer an opening statement that praised hearing with Department of Health and Human NSF for its effectiveness as an agency that supports Services Secretary Donna Shalala before the Senate the basic research that drives econorrjc advances in Appropriations Subcommittee. According to Senator this country. Rather, Walsh simply announced that Specter, the NIH's professional judgment budget NSF was appearing and turned to Colwell to begin (how much the agency could reasonably spend to her statement. Later in the hearing he appeared still respond to current scientific opportunities) is $19.3 upset over NSF's decision a number of years ago not billion. Varmus quickly noted that the figure was in to renew funding for the Supercomputer Center at response to Specter's specific request and that the Cornell University, saying it still left a "sour taste." agency "could operate effectively under the President's budget" of$15.9 billion. Both Colwell and National Science Board Chairman Eamon Kelly, an economist and former Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), the ranking President of Tulane University, made a strong case Democrat on the Subcommittee, noted that last year for NSF's proposed budget. The director expressed the Subcommittee was able to provide "a record $2 concern about the imbalance in federal funding billion increase for NIH - setting a course to double created by the "sharp nature of the shift toward the NIH funding in five years." He added that the biomedical fields," in the past 25 years. Both President's request for a 2.1 percent increase does not referred to NSF-supported basic research as "the $4 even keep up with medical inflation, let alone billion fulcrum" around which the U.S. science continue along the path of doubling the NIH budget over 5 years. Inside UPDATE.•. Harkin has not been alone in his disappointment •House Appropriators Wary of Emphasis oo with the President's budget; members from both sides Competitive Agricultural Research of the aisle have voiced their concerns publically. In • Government Reform Committee Approves Seven a March 16 press conference, COSSA joined more Census Bills; Partisan Feuding Continues than 300 organizations - including the leaders of • Budget Request "Zeroes Out" One Source of NU Funds; House CJS Appropriations Chair NIHx2, the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Not Pleased Funding, the Campaign for Medical Research, the • Sources of Research Support (Continued on p. S) 2 COSSA WASHINGTON UPDATE March 22 1999 enterprise revolves. Colwell did say that NSF had Representative Carrie Meek (D-FL) seemed asked the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) perplexed by the endeavor, wondering how it would for a $4.3 billion budget for FY 2000, an increase of contribute to the "economic good." Colwell 15 percent, and that NSF did deserve parity, in the explained that BE was an extension of Life in Earth's future, with NIH and NASA, whose current budgets Environments, an earlier NSF initiative. The new are three to four times larger than that of NSF. program would spend $50 million more than already allocated funds for enhancing environmental Walsh and other Republican members of the databases and "ecological forecasting." Subcommittee questioned whether the major new Representatives Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) and Anne initiative in the NSF budget, Information Technology Northrup (R-KY) sought to use the BE initiative as a 2 for the Twenty First Century (IT ), scheduled for an way to push their interest in moving the research increase of $146 million, was a politically-driven funds of the Environmental Protection Agency to endeavor by the White House to enhance Vice NSF. EPA's research budget is over $600 million. President Gore's reputation. Colwell responded that IT2 was a natural progression from earlier initiatives Chairman Supports Repeal of to enhance information collection and analysis, based Data Sharing Provision on the rapid acceleration of change in computing and computational power. IT2 would provide computing The issue of the revisions to the Office of power to handle huge data bases that could help Management and Budget's (OMB) Circular A-110 examine the impact of climate on health, the forced by the Congress in last year's Omnibus evolution of language, and other important areas of Appropriations Act (See UPDATE, February 8, science. She also noted that $10 million out of 1999 ) also came up during the hearing. The NSF's proposed allotment would support studies of provision would require agencies to share data from the social and economic implications of information grants they support to individuals who request it technology, including human-computer interface under the Freedom of Information Act. Chairman studies. Walsh indicated his concern and announced he was co-sponsoring legislation proposed by Representative Members of the Subcommittee also focused on George Brown (D-CA) to repeal the provision. the other new initiative in the proposed FY 2000 Representative David Price (D-NC) also commented budget; Biocomplexity in the Environment (BE). on the dangers the new law presented to the continuation of the excellent science this nation has produced. On the other side, Northrup appeared to support the new provision complaining about EPA's CONSORTIUM OF SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS unwillingness to provide "raw data" from research projects that affect public policy. Executive Director: Howard J. Silver Public Affairs: David A Hess Govenunent Affairs: Angela L. Sharpe Administrative Officer: Karen E. Carrion President: Alfred Blwnstein HOUSE APPROPRIATORS WARY OF The Consortiwn of Social Science Associations (COSSA), EMPHASIS ON COMPETITIVE an advocacy organization for federa1 support for the social AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH IfJ and behavioral sciences, was fowided in 1981 wid stands alone in Washington in representing the full range of The United States agricultural research and social and behavioral sciences. UPDATE is published 22 extension network is "the envy ofthe world," times per year. Individual subscriptions arc available from COSSA for $75; institutional subscriptions, $150, overseas according to Representative Joe Skeen (R-NM), mail, $150. ISSN 0749-4394. Address all inquiries to Chainnan of the House Agricultural, Rural COSSA. 1522 K Street, NW, Suite 836, Washington, D.C. Development, Food and Drug Administration and 20005. Phone: 2021842-3525, FAX: 202/842-2788. Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee. On http:llmembers.ao/.comlsocscience!COSSAindex.htm March 2 he asked witnesses from the Department of Agriculture's Research, Education, and Economics March 22 1999 COSSA WASHINGTON UPDATE 3 ( (REE) office why the proposed FY 2000 budget expense of fonnula funds in the proposed budget. seeks "to change it [the research and extension Representative Joanne Emerson (R-MO) voiced network] a great deal." concern that the NRI increase could go to support studies of climate change. The budget, the first proposed since the enactment of the Agricultural Research, Exten'iion The proposed budgets of the Economic Research and Education Refonn Act of 1998, includes a Service (ERS) and the National Agricultural significant ($81 million) increase for the National Statistics Service (NASS) were also part ofthe Research Initiative (NRI) Competitive Grants discussion. ERS Administrator Susan Offutt stressed program. However, it also proposes reductions ($27 the increases in the budget for enhancing commodity million) in Hatch Act fonnula grant programs, and market analysis and the infonnation needs of small Special Grants ($54.7 million). REE Undersecretary farmers. She was asked by Emerson about the I. Miley Gonzalez defended this recommendation as a increase for a carbon sequestration initiative that way to balance the research portfolio. He also "will increase the use of production practices that stressed the need for "multi-disciplinary, regional, build organic soil carbon that enhance the quality and multi-state, and multi-institutional strategies" to productivity of affected lands." Emerson was "facilitate both effective and efficient returns on our concerned that ERS was following the guidelines of research, education, and extension dollars." In the Kyoto protocol, even though that had not been justifying the increases in the REE budget proposals, ratified yet. Nethercutt also criticized REE for an Gonzalez quoted the
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