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Lawmakers say budget underfunds FDA
Four House Democrats are asking an FDA advisory group to provide funding information.
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Bush asks to boost State and USAID budgets for information technology
The administration wants to spend $414 million on the department's IT Central Fund in fiscal 2009.
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Bush budget would cut IRS systems modernization
The service's Business Systems Modernization program wouldn't see a significant funding increase under President Bush’s fiscal 2009 budget.
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EPA uses Web 2.0 to clean up the environment
Officials traveled to Washington last week to unveil information for cleaning up Puget Sound they collected in November.
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Letter: Bush is setting the stage for a health care showdown
One reader says the president wasn’t up to the task of making Medicare more efficient so he’s leaving it to his successor to tackle the problem.
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2009 budget attacks escalating Medicare costs
Bush's budget would cut Medicare spending by $12.4 billion in fiscal 2009 and by $178.2 billion over five years.
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Bush requests big budget increases for science agencies
The president has asked for across-the-board increases for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the National Science Foundation and NASA.
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Budget request: GSA seeks single fund for citizen services
The fiscal 2009 budget proposal also includes $5 million for e-government, $2 million of which would cover development of a Web-based reporting system for agencies' spending information.
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HHS seeks ONCHIT funding increase
The President's 2009 budget funds an incentive program for physicians to adopt health IT and covers an effort to use health IT in patient safety.
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Budget proposes 7.2 percent increase in IT spending at Labor
The proposed amount includes $21 million for a new core financial system to give Labor officials improved financial data for managing their programs.
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USDA IT budget boosts financial management modernization funds
But overall IT development and modernization, at $472.9 million, is slightly lower for 2009 than this year.
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IT budget request for 2009 tops $70 billion
The White House asks Congress for 6.3 percent more for technology spending compared to the 2008 request.
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Make good data great
Flashy it's not, but a well-oiled data architecture project can pay dividends.
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