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As we have seen, Congress possesses the constitutional power to fund scientific research. But Congress lacks the institutional capability to make the day-to-day decisions concerning who gets that funding. There are simply too many such decisions and they involve too much expertise. Thus Congress has passed statutes delegating its science funding power to administrative agencies. For example, when Congress created the National Science Foundation,¹ it said the agency should “support basic scientific research” and have the work done by those “qualified by training and experience to achieve the results desired.”² Similarly broad language was used to set forth the science funding job of agencies like the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, and the Department of Energy.³