FY 2001 Budget Page
Items listed in reverse time order (oldest at bottom).
The Congress, in passing the final appropriations bills for FY 2001, included a 0.25% overall reduction to all appropriations bills, including those already signed into law. This last minute negotiated settlement has brought a long, drawn-out appropriations season to a close. The AAAS has prepared a summary of the final appropriations numbers on this website. The report is also available as a PDF file.
The President signed
the VA-HUD-IA appropriations bill into law on October 27, 2000 as Public
Law 106-377. The final bill was combined with the Energy and Water Appropriations
bill. The text of the public law is available in the form of the final
conference report (106-988) PDF
file or a plain ASCII
file. Alternately, the
full bill status entry is available from the Library
of Congress' legislative documentation service know as the Thomas
web page (after Thomas Jefferson).
The Senate Appropriations Committee has just completed its work on the VA-HUD-IA bill (9-13-00) and released its report, SR 106-410 and a press release. A special AAS web page highlights the areas of the bill affecting Astronomy.
The Administration has released a report, which comments on the NSF and NASA funding levels approved by the House Appropriations Committee. AIP FYI has exerpted the relevant language from this report and made it avaialble as FYI 77.
The AAAS R&D Budget Project provides the most recent updates on budget issues and has published summary PDF reports covering recent house appropriations actions for NASA and NSF.
The House Appropriations Committee Report (House Report 106-674) covering VA-HUD-IA funding (NASA and NSF are included in this report) has been passed by the full appropriations committee and is available here.
The House VA-HUD-IA Appropriations Subcommittee has released their version of the appropriations bill, which funds NSF and NASA. A press release is available describing the highlights.
The President's budget was released on Feb. 7, 2000. Overall, astronomy fared well. As the numbers are analyzed we will post them here with analysis.