The House Thurs. passed the appropriations bill containing $294 m...
The House Thurs. passed the appropriations bill containing $294 million in funding for the FCC. The Science- State-Justice-Commerce bill (HR-5672), which passed 393-23, also provides $3 million to be transferred from the Universal Service Fund to monitor the program…
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and conduct audits to prevent waste, fraud and abuse. The Office of the Inspector General would be in charge of the investigations. The bill included funding for a number of other agencies including $18 million for NTIA, $1.77 billion for the Patent & Trademark Office should offsetting fee collections not be sufficient, $467 million for scientific and technical research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, $4.7 billion for research at the National Science Foundation, $651 million to the State Dept.’s Bcstg. Board of Governors and $213 million for the Federal Trade Commission.