Update: This post was updated at 5:10 pm CST on 2/16/16 to correct
the Obama budget figure — it's $ 35 million, not $ 35!
Not exact matches
Figure 2 shows «average» proposed year - over-year changes to the federal R&D
budget by major spending category in the eight
Obama - submitted
budgets (FY 2010 through FY 2017), based mostly on historical estimates compiled by AAAS, alongside the same data for President Bush (FY 2001 through FY 2009) for comparison.
In its newly released
budget for 2012, the
Obama Administration recommends boosting NIST's overall
budget above $ 1 billion for the first time, a nearly 17 % increase from NIST's FY 2010 $ 857 million
figure.
And before you go suggesting that's a made - up number spouted by Heartland or Rush Limbaugh, I'll save you from yourselves: it is an
Obama administration Congressional
Budget Office
figure.
Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government
figures admit, President
Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our
budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.