final stimulus

there is a revised version of House Resolution 1 on thomas.loc.gov
looks like it might be the "final version" of the stimulus bill, post-conference

assuming that it is, here are the relevant bits (thomas.loc.gov is dynamic, can't provide static links):

    UPDATE: Nope, those are too small - Pelosi put back a lot of the science funding
    and it is even better than this version of the compromise - see David Bacon's comment
    I'll update later.

    Ok, there is an eighth revision of the stimulus bill, which puts in even more money for science, I thought I had it right last night because the seventh version had Specter's $6.5G for NIH but the final version puts in more across the board, except NASA.
    Pelosi's office has the final summary of the AERRA and CRA blog condenses out the science
  • NASA - $450M for science, $200M for aero, $450M for exploration, $200M for cross-agency
    - $1000M with $400M of that committed to Earth Science climate research.
  • NSF - $1000M for research, $150M for major facilities, $50M for education
    $3000M for NSF - no word on share for MRI and Faciltiies
  • DoE - $330M $1600 for science + $400M for ARPA-E
  • NIST - $168M for research $307M for facilities $580M
  • NOAA - $377M for researhc, $645 for acquisition ???
  • USGS - $135M - chunk for National Park Service as well ???
  • Smithsonian - $75M for facilities (???)
  • NIH - $6500M + $1350M + CDC and facilities funding
    $8500M +$1500M for facilities + CDC funding (presumably still $400+M for facilities)

Hm, NASA gains, but not as much as it seemed they might...
NSF still gets a chunk but less than House wanted a huge increase, if permitted to spend on facilties this could clear up the backlog of major research facilities like ATST, NEON and ALMA, clearing way for ALIGO.

DoE gets much less than House wanted. But probably enough to put ITER and ILC back in business. Maybe this will also accelerate SNAP.

NIH - well, holy crap, I hope they spend it well.
At disgression of the Office of Director, but with restrictions where it may not go(?).

Ooh, there is an executive compensation clause - no salaries above what the President gets, if you take emergency funding (TARP) from US gov, and no bonuses over $100k or they're subject to special excise tax.
We'll see if a compensation clause survives this final revision... actual text will be interesting.

Could be worse. Could be better. We'll see how it goes.

caveat - I am not a legislative analyst and do not guarantee this is the fully cooked legislative sausage, plus they could always change their mind, eh?

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