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... Nonetheless, these ken~s in graduate enrollment raise questions about whether we are making an investment that is adequate for maintaining the vitality of our science and engineering human resources needed in the future. Federal policymakers and appropriators need to be cognizant of potential unintended consequences for the human resource base across fields necessary to a vibrant science and engineering enterprise as they craft budgets to meet agency missions.26 CONCLUSIONS In the interest of sound science policy and an efficient budget process for science and technology, it is time for the science and engineering community and the Administration to adopt one method for tabulating the Federal Science and Technology Budget.
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... Proposed budgetary decreases in FS&T at other federal agencies are of concern for several reasons: breakthroughs in medical technology, which also improve the health of the American people, have often been the result of investments in areas outside the life sciences, such as physics, chemistry, engineering, and the social and behavioral sciences; national goals in defense, energy, the environment and other areas now under review may be well served by increases, rather than flat funding or decreases, for FS&T in other federal agencies; and the national goal of global leadership in science and technology, which continues to provide the underpinning for sustained economic growth, will require funding that ensures a worId-cIass science and engineering enterprise across all fields. That FS&T in agencies other than NIH has been reduced in the President's budget proposal below that of FY 1994 suggests that a careful Congressional review of proposed FS&T spending across federal agencies is warranted as the appropriations process moves forward this year.
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