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Dear Colleagues, Congress has passed the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, and the President is expected to sign the bill. The final conference results were: NSF: $3,002,000,000 DOE Office of Science: $2,000,000,000 The full text of the conference report is available online at: http://www.house.gov/billtext/hr1_legtext_cr.pdf http://www.house.gov/billtext/hr1_legtext_crb.pdf The joint explanatory statement can be found at: http://www.house.gov/billtext/hr1_cr_jes.pdf http://www.house.gov/billtext/hr1_cr_jesb.pdf The FY2009 budget is still to be resolved (nearly halfway through the year) and the negotiations over the FY2010 budget have yet to begin. Sincerely, Norman Graf