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.