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Congress agrees to Continuing Resolution

September 25, 2012 – 11:20 AM

Congress has finally agreed on something —  sort of. With the threat of a government shutdown just before the November elections and compromise being anathema, congressional members decided to pass a Continuing Resolution (CR) to deal with government spending.  The CR will fund the government until March 27, 2013, at $1.047T, the level agreed to […]

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Final FY ‘12 Budget Yields Better- than-Expected Results for Science

December 23, 2011 – 12:05 PM

Congress recently passed the remaining nine appropriations bills to fund the government throughout Fiscal Year 2012 and the move was just in time as a continuing resolution funding the government expired at midnight on Dec.  16th. While partisan politics was on full display throughout the process, key concessions from Republicans about policy riders and funding […]

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We Must Educate New Members on Science, or Risk Losing It All

January 13, 2011 – 4:17 PM

A jubilant Rush Holt, representative of the 12th Congressional district in New Jersey, was sworn in for his 7th term on Jan. 5 before a crowd of supporters. He is now the sole physicist in Congress. During the ceremonial event, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi lauded Congressman Holt, a “real live rocket scientist” for […]

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He will be missed.

October 14, 2010 – 2:53 PM

Congressman Vernon Ehlers (MI-3), a longtime science champion is retiring. He will be missed. It was mentioned on this blog a few weeks ago that many of the Congressional champions for science are also retiring. One of the best, Representative Vernon Ehlers, was not only a friend to practicing scientists but a driving force behind […]

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Retirement of U.S. House Science Champions Creates Troubling Shortage

September 15, 2010 – 11:23 AM

Adieu Dr. Ehlers.  So long Mr. Gordon.  Sorry to see you go Mr. Inglis. And so, the close of the 111th Congress will see us bidding goodbye to a number of Members who understand the importance of science, of science funding, and of investing in our innovation future.  They continued, throughout their legislative careers, to […]

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Re-Authorize America COMPETES!

April 5, 2010 – 2:30 PM

On March 30, in a small, nondescript room at the National Press Club, sat 10 modest people who had pulled off herculean feats:  They developed colossal inventions that forever changed how we do things. Two (Spencer Silver & Arthur Fry) invented something to give absent-minded people a way to remember things by allowing them to […]

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APS member testifies about undergraduate STEM-Ed.

February 6, 2010 – 1:02 PM

Although this week in D.C. has been dominated by the release of the Obama Administration’s FY 2011 budget, other work continues, in particular preparations for the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.  The Subcommittee on Research and Science Education of the Science and Technology Committee held a hearing Thursday morning on “Strengthening Undergraduate […]

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