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WASHINGTON NEWS
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June 1, 2008
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From Betsy Houston, Federation of Materials Societies
Appropriations Bills Increasingly Unlikely: With the Congressional schedule growing tighter and tighter heading into the summer-including a week-long Memorial Day recess and after that, just under iwo months remaining until the Democratic and Republican party conventions-Congressional leaders are talking openly about giving up on the appropriations process for fiscal year (FY) 2009, looking to pass a continuing resolution to keep the government operating past October 1 but leaving it up to the new administration and new Congress to hash out details starting in February. This is very dire news for R&D funding, as it would mean ...