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NIH Gets Second Major Budget Boost in a Row
NLM Funding Rises Nearly 16 Percent
President Clinton signed an omnibus budget bill November 29th
that gave the National Institutes of Health its second record-
breaking budget increase in a row. The fiscal year 2000
appropriation for NIH is $17.9 billion, an increase of more than
$2.3 billion over FY 1999, and about $1.98 billion more than the
President requested. The 14.9 percent boost for FY 2000 matches the
14.9 increase realized in FY 1999 -- NIH's biggest dollar increase
ever.
NLM's FY 2000 budget will be increased almost 16 percent, to $215
million, up from $181 million in 1999. The increase for NLM's budget
is part of the overall FY 2000 budget increase for the NIH.
The NIH funding measure includes $3 billion in delayed
obligations, not available until September 29, 2000, and an
across-the-board budget cut of 0.38 percent. Fortunately, NIH has
flexibility in applying the cut, with no program to be trimmed by
more than 15 percent.
Overall, the bill results in budget increases at all of NIH's 24
Institutes and Centers, and the Office of the Director. New and
competing research project grants supported in FY 2000 will be
boosted to nearly 10,000. |
