Numerous factors, from domestic politics to foreign crises, affect how Congress divvies up the federal budget pie in any given year. (sciencemag.org)
Specifically, the bill would eliminate the often fierce competition for money between NIH and other agencies overseen by the appropriations subcommittee that funds health, education, and welfare programs, as well as between that panel and the 11 other subcommittees that make up the overall federal budget pie. (sciencemag.org)
In the overall scheme of things these pre-arranged little protests aimed at getting media coverage are not too effective and the e-mail blasts sent out by every special interest group to protest changes to their little corners of the budget pie and protect the paychecks of those who are writing them don't quite stack up against the masses that are overwhelming supporting the new Governor and the change he is attempting to bring to the state. (nystateofpolitics.com)