FY '08 Supplemental--More Stuff

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will bring the FY 2008 Appropriations supplemental bill up tomorrow. CongressDaily, Roll Call, etc. are reporting that the senate will adopt the house measure with the numbers noted below in the 19 June blog.

After passage, and it is predicted to pass unamended, it goes to the president. Now he has said he'd veto the bill if it contained too may "ornaments on the tree"--again, this is the bill to fund the war effort. So we'll wait and see.

Why is this important? First, the NSF is Texas A&M's primary source of federal research dollars. Second, A&M has over 100 researchers that utilize the department of energy national labs for their work--and with the case of Lawrence Livermore we're on the recently configured management team with the University of California.

Will update accordingly....