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Appendix A
Senate Report Language for the Prospective Study
on ADocation of Federal R&D Funding
Excerpt from report language accompanying Public Law 103-733:
Research Report-The [Senate Appropriations] Committee is concerned that at a
time when there is such opportunity to understand and cure disease, funding for health
research supported by NIH in the next fiscal year is held to below the inflation index for
medical research due to budget constraints. Similarly, other Federal research agencies are
confronted with constrained resources resulting from the virtual freeze in discretionary
outlays. This freeze will make decisions over how to best allocate funding for research and
development in the future all the more difficult as research opportunities collide with other
governmental responsibilities required for preserving, protecting the health, safety and
economic security of our citizen [sicl. These realities have compelled the Committee to
consider the composition of the overall Federal Government research and development
budget, which currently totals more than $70,000,000,000 a year. In particular, the Com-
mittee is concerned whether that research budget is designed to meet new national security
concerns, military, economic, and health, that confront our Nation in a post-cold war world.
The Committee is concerned, for example, that medical research is not at its optimal level
of priority and support relative to its importance to national security.
Because of these new circumstances, the Committee has provided [$750,000] within
the Office of the director [of NIH] to commission a study by the NationalAcademy of
Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. The study should consider the criteria that should
be used in judging the appropriate allocation of funds to research and development activi-
ties, the appropriate balance among different types of institutions that conduct such
research, and the means of assuring continued objectivity in the allocation process. The
academies and Institute should consult with the Office of Science end technology Policy in
planning the framework for the report. The academies and the Institute should submit the
report to both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees by December 31, 1995.
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