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After months of talk about cutting the federal budget, university scientists are getting another jolt of news on how bad it will be. The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday passed a measure that would cut the budget of the National Science Foundation by $162-million, or 2.4 percent. House appropriators approved a version of the bill in July that would hold the NSF budget level, at $6.86-billion. That approval, however, occurred before the overall agreement by Congress to cut $2-trillion in total federal spending.
