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Senate Appropriators Hope to Boost Funding for Research and Development in FY ’15

Defense Daily Staff

Tuesday, March 11th, 2014

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Senate Appropriators Hope to Boost Funding for Research and Development in FY ’15

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee

The Senate Appropriations Committee will examine federal investments in research and development, in light of the president’s budget request that did not boost scientific spending to match the rate of inflation--or, in the case of the Defense Department, declined. SAC Defense Subcommittee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said Tuesday morning at the Center for National Policy that “a research budget that fails to keep up with inflation fails to foster scientific progress, hurts our economy, jeopardizes our health and undermines our…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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