Adam Schiff: “Mr. Chairman, I just want to add another point of view. That is, again, to the fact that the President's budget, and…”

“Mr. Chairman, I just want to add another point of view. That is, again, to the fact that the President's budget, and that is what we are being offered here, we are being offered the President's budget for fiscal year 1997, and although it goes up in fiscal year 1997, it goes down each fiscal year after that. In fiscal year 1998, only in the next year, at $118 million, the same account we are talking about will be $2 million less than the Republican proposal on the floor today. The administration's proposal keeps going down every year after that. The point is, even from the point of view being expressed by the gentlewoman offering the amendment, the $120 million funding every year that remains stable will be better for the National Science Foundation than the administration's budget. I recognize the gentlewoman stated that, well, budgets in future years are not in concrete. But they are becoming made in concrete. That is because both sides, the administration and the Congress, Republicans and Democrats, have agreed to a common goal of balancing the budget by fiscal year 2002.”