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FY 2001 Federal Budget

The Administration released its FY 2001 budget request on February 7, 2000. It features significant funding increases for a host of initiatives in R&D, including Information Technology R&D, a new interagency crosscut that combines the High Performance Computing and Communications program, the Next Generation Internet initiative, and the Information Technology for the 21st Century initiative. Support for IT R&D would grow by 35 percent under the FY 2001 spending plan. Please see the CRA report on Analysis of R&D in the FY 2001 Budget Request for summaries of budget items of most relevance to computing research.

Appropriations

• Dr. Neal Lane Releases Mid-Summer Status Report on R&D Appropriations, OSTP, August 3, 2000

• Republicans Slash Investments in Science and Technology: Put the "New Economy" at Risk, White House press release, June 15, 2000

• CRA Report on Status of FY 2001 DARPA Appropriations, June 13, 2000

• House Appropriations Subcommittee Marks Up FY01 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, House Appropriations Committee press release, June 12, 2000

• CRA Report on Status of FY 2001 NSF Appropriations, June 9, 2000

• House Appropriations Committee Approves FY01 VA-HUD Spending Bill, House Appropriations Committee press release, May 23, 2000

• Status of FY 2001 Appropriations bills

Budget Request Documents

• FY 2001 Budget Request, links to Administration documents
• FY 2001 R&D Budget Package, links to Office of Science and Technology Policy materials
• Information Technology R&D Fact Sheet (.pdf)
• National Science Foundation
• NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering
• Department of Defense RDT&E (.pdf)
• Department of Energy
• NASA (.pdf)
• National Institutes of Health
• Department of Commerce (.pdf)

Speeches & News Releases

• Testimony by NSF Director Rita Colwell Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, May 4, 2000

• Testimony by NSF Director Rita Colwell Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD and Independent Agencies, April 4, 2000

• Letter from White House Chief of Staff John Podesta on the Congressional Budget Resolution, March 14, 2000

• Remarks by the President at Release of Fiscal Year 2001 Budget, White House press release, February 7, 2000

• The Clinton-Gore Administration FY 2001 Budget: Maintaining Fiscal Discipline While Making Key Investments, White House press release, February 7, 2000

• Remarks by OSTP Director Neal Lane on the FY 2001 R&D Budget (.pdf), February 7, 2000

• Remarks by the President at Science and Technology Event, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, January 21, 2000

• Information Technology Research and Development: Information Technology for the 21st Century, White House press release, January 21, 2000

• President Clinton Announces Nearly a $3 Billion Increase in Twenty-First Century Research Fund, White House press release, January 21, 2000

• Clinton-Gore Administration Proposes Record Increase for the National Science Foundation, White House press release, January 21, 2000

• Press Briefing by OSTP Director Neal Lane and NSF Director Rita Colwell, White House press release, January 21, 2000

Congressional Response to the Budget Request

• Science Committee Majority Releases Views & Estimates of Science Budget, House Science Committee press release, March 9, 2000
  • Views and Estimates of the Committee on Science for FY 2001 (.pdf)

• Chairman Young Responds to President's FY 2001 Budget, House Appropriations Committee press release, February 7, 2000

• Senate Budget Committee Analysis of the FY 2001 Budget Request

• House Budget Committee website on the FY 2001 Budget
  • House Budget Committee Overview of Science and Technology in the FY 2001 Budget Request (.pdf)

• Sensenbrenner Urges President to Make Science Programs a Priority in Administration's Budget, House Science Committee press release, January 21, 1999

Independent Analyses of the Budget Request

• Computing Research in the FY 2001 Budget Request

• CRA Analysis of R&D in the FY 2001 Budget Request

• AAAS Analysis of R&D in the FY 2001 Budget