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Science Debate's Analysis of Science in the Stimulus

FINAL Conference Bill numbers source: House-Senate conference report, 2/12/09.  Also includes $650M for Ed Technology, not listed below.

'Agency totals' for DOE/EERE is a subset; the full total including other items is considerably larger. The Conference Bill (right column) was approved by the House and Senate on February 13, 2009. Updated 2/17/2009 to reflect conference report: $20M transfered from HIT to NIST, not TIP.

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