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II. The Budget History
Pages 8-13

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... 1981, the Reagan Administration has submitted budget estimates for approximately 5,000 NIH competing research projects involving increasing dollar amounts each year, with the single exception of F.Y. 1983 when the President's budget included a budget estimate of only 4, 100 such pro jects (Table 1~ .
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... 1984 the appropriations committees added more than $100 million for NIH to restore the cut made by OMB in the average project grant costs projected by NIH, in F.Y. 1985 they were presented with a budget from the Executive Branch that included amounts deemed adequate to fully fund the 5,000 project estimate and thus for that year had more leeway for appropriating funds to increase the program level.
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... Representative William Natcher, chairman of the House subcommittee, said that he was "really disturbed", that "the people downtown know that they can't do this", and that "we'll get this thing resolved"30/. Senator Lowell Weicker, Jr., chairman of the Senate subcommittee, charged that the Administration was "trying to circumvent the law" and asked the Comptroller General of the United States to determine whether the HHS's refusal to distribute funds for all 6,500 grants "amounts to an illegal impoundment''31/.
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... using the difference between the estimated dollar amounts required for the originally approved number of 6,526 NIH research projects and those required for the compromise figure of 6,000 in F.Y. 1985 to forward fund a portion of the 6,000 projects (150 to 200 projects)
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... 1986 appropriation bill was still pending in Congress.
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