(Source: AAAS - American Association for the Advancement of Science) As federal science agencies continue to recover from the 2013 sequestration funding cuts, every major science agency's budget is above or very near pre-sequestration levels in the current fiscal year. Yet the research and development funding request from President Obama for fiscal year 2017 is complicated by the heavy reliance on 'mandatory spending,' which refers to any spending written into, and required by, laws other than appropriations bills. Funding R&D initiatives that are part of these new mandatory spending requests would require new legislation outside of the traditional appropriations process, said the director...
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