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FROM THE FEDERATION OF MATERIALS SOCIETIES: "I am deeply disappointed that, yet again, the president's budget does not make K–12 education programs at NSF a priority," House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Bart Gordon (D-TN) told Marburger. Marburger countered by saying that the administration "does not support significant expansion of STEM education programs that are housed outside the Department of Education. The administration believes that the mission agencies should be focused on the R&D components of ACI." Gordon also criticized the administration's determination to eliminate two programs at NIST—phasing out the Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program and zero-funding the Technology Innovation Program. Marburger pointed out that NIST's "core" research and facilities would receive an increase of 22% over the 2008 omnibus appropriation (after accounting for earmarks and unrequested grants) for new initiatives in research and measurements in high-leverage areas such as nanotechnology manufacturing; expanding NIST's neutron facility to aid in characterizing novel materials in high-growth research fields; and improving understanding of complex biological systems to accelerate innovations and enable investment in biosciences, including disease diagnosis and treatment.

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