W Stanach Zjednoczonych budżet przeznaczany na naukę jest pieczołowicie programowany przez politykę naukową, ale nie przez upartyjnionych polityków, którzy nie mają zielonego pojęcia o uprawianiu nauki jak to się dzieje w Polsce:
The NIH Congressional Justification ("CJ") provides the Senate and House Appropriations Committees detailed estimates and justifications for research and research support activities (infrastructure, administrative, etc.) that NIH would anticipate funding at the President's Budget Request level.
The Overview section provides a narrative discussing NIH's past accomplishments in advancing the biomedical research enterprise, as well as current and future research endeavors of great promise. This section also provides NIH budget and employment summary tables (consolidated from those of all NIH's Institutes and Centers) and, justifications and tables for centrally provided services (the NIH Management Fund, and the NIH Service and Supply Fund).
NIH has 27 separate appropriations for which CJ documentation is prepared. Links to this documentation is provide here: Institute and Centers Congressional Justifications
