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FY 2000 Federal Budget

The Administration released its FY 2000 budget request on February 1, 1999, proposing to spend $78.2 billion for research and development. The highlight of the R&D budget request was the Information Technology for the Twenty-First Century (IT²) initiative, in which six federal research agencies planned to participate.

Congress must approve the budgets of the individual agencies before any of the funds can be spent. It does this through the appropriations process, which culminates in the passage of thirteen separate spending measures. Congress approved all FY 2000 appropriations bill by late November, 1999, about six weeks after the start of FY 2000 on October 1, 1999.

Appropriations

• Wrap-Up of FY 2000 Appropriations

• Congressional Action on R&D in the FY 2000 Budget, AAAS report

• Status of all Appropriations bills

Federal Budget Request Documents

• FY 2000 Budget Request, official Administration documents

• FY 2000 R&D Budget Request, overview from the Office of Science and Technology Policy

• National Science Foundation FY 2000 budget documents

• Department of Defense FY 2000 budget for RDT&E programs

• Department of Energy FY 2000 budget documents

• High Performance Computing and Communications FY 2000 budget document

CRA Analyses of the Budget Request

• R&D in the FY 2000 Budget Request

• Computing Research in the FY 2000 Budget Request

Other Analyses of the Budget Request

• Views & Estimates for FY 2000, House Science Committee report

• FY 2000 Budget Analysis, House Science Committee document

• AAAS Analysis of R&D in the FY 2000 Budget

• The Washington Post Special Report on the Budget