Before summer's end, Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate subcommittee that handles appropriations for energy development, announced that she would discontinue all funding for ITER until the Department of Energy provided a detailed assessment of the total American financial commitment.
The legislation, if passed, would express the will of Congress toward NSF but would not actually provide the money to carry it out; that power rests with another set of committees that handle federal appropriations.
Ms. Lowey and Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee and the Senate subcommittee that handles State Department appropriations, criticized the administration for not telling Congress about its plans.
A11 Congressman Resigns Post After two weeks of intense pressure, the leading Democrat on the House ethics committee, Alan B. Mollohan of West Virginia, stepped down over criticism of how he has handled earmarked appropriations and his own finances.
She works in Washington for the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations, handling labor and education financing issues.
The overlap would begin to address the situation in which the appropriations committees handle intelligence as only one of many specialties.
The two senators, who run the appropriations subcommittee that handles foreign aid, could block further assistance to Yugoslavia, Mr. Leahy said.
The top single Senate recipient is Diane Feinstein (D-Cal)., who chairs the Intelligence Committee and the appropriations subcommittee that handles the Energy Department's nuclear weapons budget; she collected $74,500 in this election cycle and $421,747 over her 20-year career, according to the report.
Among important standing committees are those on appropriations, on ways and means (which handles matters related to finance), and on rules.
