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Appendix A 



Senate Report Language for the Prospective Study 



on Allocation of Federal R&D Funding 



Excerpt from report language accompanying Public Law 103-733: 



Research Report— The (Senate Appropriations) Comminee 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 (sic). 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, militar)', 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 Conmiinee has provided [$750,000] within 

 the Office of the director [of NIH] to commission a study by the National Academy 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 and Technology Policy in 

 planning the framework for the repon. The academies and the Institute should submit the 

 repon to both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees by December 31, 1995. 



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