This document records testimony from a hearing before the Committee on Education and Labor to examine the policies and priorities of the United States Department of Education. Member statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Robert C. Scott, Chairman, Committee on Education and Labor; and (2) Honorable Virginia Foxx, Ranking Member, Committee on…

More than a dozen education programs--including high-profile efforts focused on literacy, teaching, and learning--face the prospect of a permanent federal funding loss after they were chopped from a stopgap spending measure signed into law by President Barack Obama last week. The temporary spending law, intended to keep the government running…

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives appear determined to make deep cuts to education and related programs in the temporary spending bill that would keep the federal government operating for the rest of the fiscal year, even as President Barack Obama seeks a modest funding boost next year. That sets up a fiscal face-off in the…

Describes the research and development funding as proposed in the 1978 federal budget submitted by President Ford on January 17, 1977. (SL)

Describes the role, programs, and responsibilities of the Congressional Budget Office with particular emphasis on federal research and development budgeting. (SL)

Summarizes the research and development efforts involved in the 1975 annual federal budget proposals, including descriptions of priority national needs and funding of research programs. Included are statistics of actual and estimated expenses for the period from 1973 through 1975. (CC)

An evaluation is given of the performance of the 96th Congress on child-related federal programs. (JD)

Describes tentative federal budget cuts affecting science education in the National Science Foundation, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, and the specific areas these budget cuts will affect. (DS)

The Federal Government will spend an estimated $1.5 billion in fiscal year 1986 for the production and publication of statistical data. This estimate represents the expected obligations for statistical activities of over 70 agencies or departmental units reporting outlays of at least $500,000 for such activities in their budgets for any of fiscal…

The ways and means, types of relationships involved, and the conditions attached to the provision of funds accompanying the huge growth in federal sponsorship of college and university activities is examined. A historical review and analysis of the various factors that have entered into the relationship between colleges and universities and the…

The stated objectives of the study reported here were to determine the answers to the following questions: what Federal, State and local programs provide contracting opportunities for minorities and women equal to those provided to nonminority males; if not, what the barriers to their full participation are; to what extent special State or local…

This report on the statistical programs and activities of the Federal Government covers some 70 Federal agencies or separate departmental units budgeting at least $500,000 in any of fiscal years 1985-87. The budgets of agencies whose sole mission is statistical represent less than half the $1.6 billion that the Federal Government will spend on…