July 20, 2001

House and Senate Appropriations Committees Approve FY 2002 Increases for VA Research, NSF

The House and Senate Appropriations Committees approved their FY 2002 VA-HUD appropriations bills on July 17 and 19, respectively. House appropriators provided $371 for VA medical and prosthetics research, an increase of 20 million (5.7 percent) over FY 2001; the Senate committee countered with $390 million, an increase of $40 million (11.4 percent). House and Senate appropriators approved appropriations of $4.84 billion, an increase of $414 million (9.35 percent) and $4.6 billion, an increase of $256 million (5.8 percent), respectively, for the National Science Foundation. House floor consideration of the bill may come as early as July 26.

Information: Jonathan Fishburn, AAMC Office of Governmental Relations, 202-828-0525.