La camera dei deputati degli Stati Uniti ha bocciato con 280 contro 150 voti la continuazione della costruzione dell'SSC (Superconducting supercollider) nel Texas. Il gigantesco acceleratore rischia di rimanere un progetto non finito. Deve ancora pronunciarsi il senato. 

Per un violento attacco di John Dingell contro il SSC si veda "What's new" del 2 luglio 1993.
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From: CCPNGW::"HEPSSC@SSCVX1.ssc.gov" 22-SEP-1993 01:45:47.62
To: subscriber@ssc.gov

Interim Bulletin: September 21, 1993
 
 This morning the Senate Energy and Water Appropriations
Subcommittee held a mark-up on their Fiscal 1994 appropriations
bill (H.R. 2445). The recommendation for the Fermilab Main
Injector was reported at $25 million (same as the budget 
request), and the SSC at $640 million (same as the request).
 
 The bill now moves to the full Senate Appropriations
Committee, which is expected to mark up the bill on Thursday,
September 23.
 
 During the very brief subcommittee mark-up today, there was
no debate on the SSC - only some laudatory remarks by
Subcommittee Chairman Bennett Johnston (D-La.); no opponents
spoke (except jokingly asking to be excused if the Chairman
decided to give a major pro-SSC speech during the mark-up).
After the meeting adjourned, however, Johnston was approached by
reporters, whereupon he launched into a lengthy description of
the project's progress, successes, scientific promise, and bright
future. He expressed confidence in the outcome in the Senate
(floor action tentatively September 28).
 
 During a post-markup briefing, the overall number for the
General Science and Research Activities account was referred to
as $1.6 billion -- with High Energy Physics at $612 million and
Nuclear Physics at $353 million. However, it had been stressed
at the beginning of the markup and was again stressed at the end 
of the markup that many of the situations in the bill are in a
somewhat fluid state, meaning that the real import of the line-
by-line listings will not be understood until the full-committee
markup on Thursday, when the aggregate budget environment of the
bill will be more completely known.
 
 Also of note was a Q&A exchange in which a reporter asked
about the B-factory. Johnston said it was listed at zero in the
Senate version. On a follow-up question, Johnston said that was
simply because they were waiting for a report from the DOE about
the site competition. Since there are funds in the House version
of the bill, the matter can be negotiated in conference.
 
 More-thorough details will be provided as they become
available.
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