Bills to give NSF massive spending boost advance in Senate and House, but hurdles remain
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/bills-give-nsf-massive-spending-boost-advance-senate-and-house-hurdles-remain
Funding authorized for the Department of Energy could support its network of laboratories, which includes Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
Two key congressional committees this week endorsed the idea of a sizable spending increase for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). Separate pieces of legislation—one approved by a Senate panel, the other by a committee of the House of Representatives—would more than double NSF’s budget over 5 years as part of a broader push to outinnovate China and the rest of the world through a massive federal investment in research.