Senate Appropriations Committee
Moves VA-HUD Bill
September 12, 2003 - The Senate Appropriations Committee
Sept. 4 approved its version of the FY 2004 VA, HUD and Independent
Agencies appropriations bill (S.
1584), providing modest increases for the Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA) research program and the National Science
Foundation (NSF). Specifically, the Senate panel recommended
$413 million for the VA medical and prosthetics research program,
an increase of $15.6 million (3.9 percent). Senators also
recommended $26.8 billion for VA Medical Care, an increase
of $2.9 billion (12.1 percent), $1.3 billion of which was
designated as "emergency spending" and therefore
not subject to the budget caps. For the NSF, Senate appropriators
approved $5.59 billion, an increase of $275 million (5.2 percent),
including $4.22 billion for NSF Research, an increase of $164
million (4.0 percent). The House of Representatives approved
its version of the bill (H.R.
2861) on July 25 [see Washington
Highlights, Aug. 1].
Jonathan Fishburn, Director, Research, Education and Veterans' Legislative Affairs
AAMC Office of Governmental Relations
jfishburn@aamc.org
(202) 828-0525
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