Saturday, October 02, 2004
The Manufacturing Extension partnership received $8.5 million in emergency funds for the coming fiscal year. This move is designed to keep the program in tact until Congress passes the 2005 budget. The budget year began last Friday.
In one of the bonehead moves of the year, Congress cut the MEP program's budget by 60% last year. Congress cut funding for the manufacturing program, usually budgeted at $106 million a year, by $66.4 million to $39.6 million in 2004.
Meanwhile, Senator Grassley managed to slip in a $50 million appropriation for his rain forest project in Iowa. Read more.
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MEP gets emergency funding
