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Hyperlinks to outside web pages are not maintained after the budget is passed and may be broken. The BES Budget Archives contain many past Budget Requests and Committee Reports.

Congressional Markups and status of the Office of Science FY 2001 Budget

Executive Action:   H.R. 4635 signed by the President and became Public Law No: 106-377 (10/27/00)

Conference:   Senate passes H.R. 4635 by Yea-Nay Vote: 85-8 (10/19/00); House passes H.R. 4635 by Yea-Nay Vote: 386-24 (10/19/00); Conference Report H.Rept. 106-988 (H.R. 4635) contains appropriations for VA/HUD (H.R. 5482) and Energy/Water (H.R. 5483), and provides new bill numbers (10/18/00).

House:   Presidental veto on H.R. 4733 overridden by House by 2/3rds Yea-Nay Vote: 315-98 (10/11/00)

Executive Action:   President vetoes Energy-Water Appropriations Bill; President's message to the House concerning the veto (10/7/00);  Statement by the President regarding Energy-Water Appropriations Bill (10/2/00).

Conference:   Conference Report on H.R. 4733 passes Senate (press release) by Yea-Nay Vote: 57-37 (10/2/00); Conference Report passes House (press release) by Yea-Nay Vote: 301-118 (9/28/00); Conference Report on H.R. 4733: 106-907 (9/27/00): Full Report (3.12 MB; 92 pp.); SC pages only (158 kb; 3 pp.); Conference held on 9/26/00, S-128, Capitol.   The conferees on H.R. 4733 were 15 Senators and 13 Representatives, appointed on September 11 and September 14, 2000, respectively.  The conferees were all the members of the Senate and House Energy and Water Development subcommittees and the 2 ranking members of each of the respective Appropriation Committees who were not also on the subcommittee.

Senate Appropriations:   9/7/00    H.R. 4733 Passes Senate by Yea-Nay Vote: 93-1; Remarks by Senator Bingaman (NM) on the floor of the Senate regarding funding for Office of Science programs (9/7/00); Senate Report on H.R. 4733: 106-395 (8/30/00): Full Report (614 kb; 186 pp.); SC pages only (134 kb; 8 pp.); Press Release (7/18/00):  Committee approves Energy & Water Development Appropriations Bill 2001 (H.R. 4733);   Senate Markup News (7/13/00);  Senator Thompson Press Release (7/13/00).

House Appropriations:  6/28/00   H.R. 4733 Passes House by Yea-Nay Vote: 407-19; House Report on H.R 4733: 106-693 (6/23/00): Full Report (2.4 MB; 171 pp.); SC pages only (0.2 MB; 8 pp.); Full Committee Markup:  Press Release (6/20/00); Energy and Water Development Subcommittee Markup:  Press Release (6/12/00)

Congressional Hearings involving the Office of Science FY 2001 Budget Request

Senate Appropriations:   Energy and Water Development Subcommittee (April 11, 2000)  9:00 a.m.; 124 Dirksen Building; DOE Offices of Science; Nuclear Energy; and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.  | James Decker |

House Appropriations:   Energy and Water Development Subcommittee (March 16, 2000)  10:00 a.m.; 2362-B Rayburn; DOE Offices of Science; Nuclear Energy; and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.  - Secretary of Energy testimony before the Subcommittee (March 8, 2000)

Senate Authorization:   Energy and Natural Resources Committee (March 2, 2000)  9:30 a.m.; 366 Dirksen Building; The Committee concluded hearings on the Department's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2001 after receiving testimony from Bill Richardson, Secretary of Energy.

House Authorization:   Energy and Environment Subcommittee (March 1, 2000)  DOE Offices of Science; Environment, Safety and Health; and Environmental Management. Chairman Ken Calvert | Jerry Costello |  Dan Berkovitz | James Decker | David Michaels Hearing Charter | Witness List | View Archive of Hearing (You may need to download free RealPlayer software.) Views and Estimates of the Committee on Science for Fiscal Year 2001 (March 9, 2000)

The President's FY 2001 Budget Request was transmitted to Congress on February 7, 2000, and covers the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2000.  The FY 2001 Budget Request for BES (below) contains breakouts of the FY 1999 (actual), FY 2000 (estimate) and FY 2001 (request) Basic Energy Sciences (BES) budgets.  The document describes in some detail the mission and goals of the BES program, FY 1999 accomplishments, the research activities and facilities operations that the BES program supports, performance measures, and the proposed future directions of the BES program.

Click the 3 PDF icons above to download a Postscript Data Formatted (PDF) file of the Office of Science (SC) Congressional Budget Request for FY 2001.  To view these files, you may need to download Adobe Acrobat Reader, free software.  In addition, a slide presentation of the FY 2001 SC Budget Request that was used at the February 7, 2000, "rollout" is also available (click here).

BES is one program within the Office of Science (formerly, the Office of Energy Research); the BES budget appears on pages 61-140 of the SC, Part 2 file;  BES is also described in the Executive Summary by SC Director (Acting) James Decker that is provided above (SC, Part 1, first 13 pages)

An overview of the Department of Energy's FY 2001 budget request is provided by the Budget Highlights document entitled "Strength Through Science."  These PDF files along with those for the other Department of Energy programs can be downloaded from the Department's Chief Financial Officer website (click here for list of available files).