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- From: rsherme@diamond.nswc.navy.mil (Russel Shermer (R43))
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- Subject: Fyi #9: House Appropriations VA/HUD Subcommittee Named
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- Public Information Division
- American Institute of Physics
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- House Appropriations VA/HUD Subcommittee Named
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- FYI No. 9, January 22, 1993
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- Members have been named to the subcommittees of the House
- Appropriations Committee for the 103rd Congress. Of major interest
- to scientists and science educators is the Subcommittee on
- Veterans' Affairs, Housing and Urban Development, and Independent
- Agencies, which has jurisdiction over funding for the National
- Science Foundation and NASA. On the other side of Capitol Hill,
- the Senate has determined the membership of its major committees,
- but it has not yet announced final subcommittee assignments.
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- The VA/HUD/IA subcommittee has a very different look this year.
- Five members are new to the subcommittee, although none are
- freshmen: two Democrats (Torres and Thornton) and all three
- Republicans. Both the Chairman and Ranking Republican have
- changed. The chairmanship has been taken over by Louis Stokes
- (D-Ohio), a long-standing member of the subcommittee (see FYI#156,
- 1992 for a profile on Stokes.) The nine members of this
- subcommittee will have a major role in determining the NSF and NASA
- budgets for the fiscal year starting October 1.
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- House Appropriations Subcommittee on VA/HUD/IA:
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- Louis Stokes (D-Ohio) Jerry Lewis (R-CA)
- Chairman Ranking Republican
- Alan B. Mollohan (D-WV) Tom DeLay (R-TX)
- Jim Chapman (D-TX) Dean A. Gallo (R-NJ)
- Marcy Kaptur (D-OH)
- Esteban E. Torres (D-CA)
- Ray Thornton (D-AR)
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- The appropriations committees in the House and Senate are some of
- the most powerful committees, and some of the most desired
- committee assignments, in Congress. In theory, appropriations
- committees dole out federal funds to agencies and programs that
- have been approved by the corresponding authorizing committees. In
- reality, however, the appropriators have most of the power because
- they control the purse strings, and often substitute their own
- favorite projects for funding. The power struggle between
- authorizers and appropriators will be visible later this year: The
- National Science Foundation is due for re-authorization by the
- House Science Committee, chaired by Rep. George Brown
- (D-California.)
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- The fiscal year 1994 appropriations process will begin when
- President Clinton submits a budget request to Congress, probably in
- mid-March. The House appropriations subcommittees then respond
- with their own budget bills, followed by the Senate. When both the
- House and Senate have passed their versions, selected members meet
- in conference to iron out the differences in each bill, before
- final passage.
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