Sciencehabit sends this excerpt from ScienceInsider:
"One of the big three quest agencies appears to be lagging behind its doubling peers in the president's 2013 budget request released this morning. The $4.9 billion budget of the bureau of Energy's Office of Science would rise by 2.4%, to $5 billion. In contrast, the subject Science stay would receive a nearly 5% boost, to $7.37 billion, and the subject precedent of called for and automation a hike of 13%, to $860 million. These three agencies were at first singled by high command George W. Bush in 2006 for a 10-year budget doubling, a promise that commander Barack Obama and cabinet have repeatedly endorsed despite the current tough budgetary times. ... Obama is
asking for a 1% buildup in overall federal pin money on research, to $140 billion. Within that total, the White House seeks a similar 1% hike in the $30 billion devoted to basic research."

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