Federal Funds for Research and Development: FY 2008–10

This report...presents data collected by the Survey of Federal Funds for Research and Development for the federal
FY 2008–10. In December 2009 the survey was sent to all federal agencies identified as conducting R&D programs, and 27 agencies reported R&D funding levels as of the second quarter of FY 2008. The basis for reporting is determined by fiscal year.
FY 2008 data are completed transactions
FY 2009 data are estimates of congressional appropriation actions and apportionment
and reprogramming decisions
FY 2010 data are estimates of administration budget proposals not yet acted on

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Consolidated Federal Funds Report

The Consolidated Federal Funds Report is proposed to reach its end run this year. This could well be the last report of this kind issued! Be a part of history, read it, and maybe print a copy and keep it for your records.

GAO testimony on Census Data and Formula Grants

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently released the following testimony:
Formula Grants: Census Data Are among Several Factors That Can Affect Funding Allocations, by Robert Goldenkoff, strategic issues, before the Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National Archives, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. GAO-09-832T, July 9.
Highlights.

Congress can save the census

New York Times editorial, April 10, 2008: Another Heck of a Job. (Free registration may be required.)

Last paragraph:
In the next few weeks, President Bush will request an emergency appropriation for Iraq. Lawmakers, both Democrat and Republican, must fight to attach the census money to that bill; the amount comes to less than one day’s spending for the war. The census is central to American democracy, used to determine the number of each state’s congressional representatives and electoral votes, the boundaries of electoral districts and the allocation of federal tax dollars. The Bush administration won’t save the census. But Congress can.