《科学与政府报导》杂志对美国的1995年科学预算的一篇评论文章指出,虽然在1995财年美国国会对科学的拨款还算慷慨,但考虑到通货膨胀因素时,许多研究开发项目的预算也只是和去年持平,另一些研究项目所得的资金实际上比去年下降了。而在1995年的预算拨款中获得最高增长率的只是国家标准与技术研究所(NIST),这个曾被里根和布什政府冷落的机构现已成为克林顿政府用来促进高技术产业 A commentary in the Science and Government Report on the U.S. scientific budget for 1995 states that although Congressional spending on science was fairly generous in fiscal 1995, the budget for many research and development projects, taking inflation into account, It is only flat with last year. Other research projects have actually dropped their funding from last year. Only the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which had enjoyed the highest growth rate in 1995 budget allocations, had been left out of the Reagan and Bush administrations as the Clinton administration to promote high-tech industries