The full House Appropriations Committee cleared the FY2022 Defense spending bill yesterday by a party-line vote of 33-23. Among other efforts, the legislation funds Pentagon-supported basic and applied research programs . The detailed committee report that outlines the individual accounts in bill is available here.
The committee is scheduled to take up additional measures of interest to UW later this week, with the Labor-HHS-Education and Commerce-Justice-Science bills slated to be marked up tomorrow and the Energy and Water Development legislation on deck for Friday.
Earlier today, the committee released the reports for the Labor-HHS-Education bill and the CJS bill and we will provide additional details about all of these bills after further analysis. The Energy and Water Development report is not yet available.