Sentences with phrase «science subcommittee»

«As a senior appropriator on the Commerce, Justice and Science subcommittee, Congressman Schiff has a track record of support for important ocean and clean energy programs.»

In 1995, shortly before F. Sherwood Rowland (1927 - March 10, 2012) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for collaborative work two decades earlier on the fundamental chemistry of stratospheric ozone depletion, a House Science subcommittee held a hearing, chaired by Rep.... Continue reading →

The Commerce - Justice - Science subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee held a hearing on NASA's FY2011 budget request on April 22, 2010.

The co-sponsor of the resolution is Rep. John Culberson (R - Texas), who chairs the House Appropriations Commerce - Justice - Science subcommittee that funds NASA.

Culberson is a member of the House Appropriations Commerce - Justice - Science subcommittee that funds NASA, of which Wolf is the chair.

«If we end up selecting two, then we wouldn't put out a call for the next Discovery as we originally had planned, which is in 2017,» said Jim Green, NASA director of planetary science, during a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council's planetary science subcommittee.

, chairman of the Commerce - Justice - Science subcommittee.

Not exact matches

Apple's general counsel, Bruce Sewell, and Amy Hess, executive assistant director for science and technology at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, will testify on separate panels before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Tuesday, in addition to other law enforcement officials and technology experts.

From someone on the Science and Space subcommittee who claims to be Catholic.

He clearly legitimized the < 10,000 year answer — from someone on the Senate Science and Space subcommittee.

Important investigative committees cover communications, economic affairs, the European Union (which has seven themed subcommittees), and science and technology.

Congress's attitude has undergone «a great change» in recent years, leading to a drop in «real commitment to scientific research,» said Representative Daniel Lipinski (D - IL), the ranking member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology's research and technology subcommittee and one of a dozen trained engineers in Congress.

While the Senate's counterpart bill has not yet emerged from the subcommittee that funds NASA, Sen. Richard Shelby, R - Ala., chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies, raised concerns about spending cuts included in the White House budget blueprint.

In beginning the hearing, subcommittee chair Senator Chuck Schumer (D — NY) advocated «virtually stapling a green card to [the] diploma» of anyone earning an American science or technical degree so that «the best and brightest students from around the world» can stay here and «start companies.»

Even so, the move by the Senate Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriations subcommittee would erase most of the cuts that President Donald Trump requested next year for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Representative John Culberson (R - TX), who chairs the appropriations subcommittee that funds NSF, and his Republican colleagues want to make sure the bulk of the money is spent on «core sciences,» which, in their view, do not include the geological or the social and behavioral sciences.

Although that increase may seem like small change, it represents a vote of confidence for the Office of Science, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate energy and water subcommittee, said at the Senate subcommittee markup yesterday.

The Administration had sought over five percent increases for both NSF and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and a 5.2 percent discretionary spending increase might open the door to these (as Rep. John Culberson [R - TX], chair of the NSF appropriations subcommittee, suggested back in May).

A House appropriations subcommittee late last month approved the bill, which keeps overall funding for DOE's Office of Science flat at $ 5.39 billion but imposes deep cuts on applied renewable energy programs.

Those words are «the subcommittee's subtle way to say that it does not agree with the House's approach,» says Joel Widder of Federal Science Partners, a small consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

► In U.S. funding news, «both the Senate and House of Representatives appropriations subcommittees that oversee [the Department of Energy (DOE)-RSB- released spending plans that would give the Office of Science just a 0.9 % increase, to $ 5.4 billion,» Adrian Cho reported Thursday.

Along with the news that a Senate spending subcommittee today approved a paltry $ 46 million budget increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) for fiscal year 2017 came what appears to be a bright spot for ocean sScience Foundation (NSF) for fiscal year 2017 came what appears to be a bright spot for ocean sciencescience.

On the same day that Moniz addressed the Forum, journalist Adrian Cho reported for Science that appropriations subcommittees for both the Senate and the House of Representatives had on 13 April «released spending plans that would give the [DOE] Office of Science just a 0.9 % increase.»

Although it is not the 4.2 % increase that the Obama administration proposed in February, «it represents a vote of confidence for the Office of Science, Senator Lamar Alexander (R — TN), chair of the Senate energy and water subcommittee, said at the Senate subcommittee markup.»

«Fusion appears to come out the loser here,» and that is a «concern,» Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R - NJ), the chair of the energy subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations, told William Brinkman, the director of DOE's Office of Science.

Representative John Culberson (R — TX) will succeed retiring Representative Frank Wolf (R — VA) as chair of the subcommittee that funds the «National Science Foundation, NASA, and the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.»

Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Appropriations» own subcommittee passed a spending bill for fiscal year 2016, which begins 1 October, that would give the Office of Science just a 1.5 % increase.

«Challenges are an appealing alternative to traditional research grants because «you're only paying for success,» Christopher Frangione, XPRIZE's vice president of prize development, told members of the space, science, and competitiveness subcommittee of the Senate commerce committee on Tuesday.

But the committee will have three more members than a normal committee and will have the power to set up a science and technology subcommittee for any matters that cross departmental boundaries.

In particular, I was a Department of Commerce Science and Technology Fellow, serving as a member of the subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and as a special director in the Office of Cultural Resources of the National Park Service.

Suresh, who became NSF director last October, was questioned by Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA), the once and current chair of the commerce, science, and justice appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

But the dilemma even got the attention of the Senate subcommittee in charge of science appropriations, chaired by Senator Barbara Mikulski (D — MD), whose state includes both the STScI and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, which operates the New Horizons mission.

Representative Lamar Smith explains the process of naming the science committee's subcommittee chairs.

Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member of the current report's modeling subcommittee (Stephan was also a member of that 1998 NRC committee), writes to Science Careers in an e-mail that it's «disappointing to see that NIH did not figure out a way to shift more funds into training grants and fellowships and away from research assistantship stipends» or «implement any requirement for limiting the amount of salary that can be written off of grants — something that could dampen the demand for graduate students.»

The original impetus for the foresight programme came in December 1991 at a meeting of the Cabinet subcommittee on science, chaired by the Prime Minister.

A former astronaut, Nelson chairs the science panel's research subcommittee and has been a strong supporter of research during a combined 26 years of service in the House and the Senate.

His predecessor on the research subcommittee when the Democrats controlled the House, for example, led a successful fight in 2007 against criticism of specific NSF grants in the social sciences.

Fattah relinquished his position on the Commerce, Justice, and Science, and Related Agencies appropriations subcommittee today and was replaced by Representative Mike Honda (D — CA), a former high school principal who has been a reliable vote for additional federal funding of research and education.

In 2007, a hard - hitting report (pdf) by a subcommittee of the FDA Science Board cited «serious scientific deficiencies» that threaten the safety of food.

Science lobbyists are hailing the vote of confidence in basic research from Congress and applauding the efforts of Representative Frank Wolf (R - VA) and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D - MD), who chair the relevant appropriations subcommittee in the House of Representatives and the Senate, respectively.

It is busy working out national goals for science, while a subcommittee examines how the councils» boards should change after the election.

Two more Republicans who have publically denied the role of human activity in climate change — Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio — have assumed leadership of two influential subcommittees of the Senate commerce, science and transportation committee.

The new chairman of the appropriations subcommittee that fund Nasa and the NSF, Republican John Culberson, has reportedly recently reiterated that the earth sciences don't meet his definition of «the pure sciences».

Edwards said on Tuesday that she was trying to talk to subcommittee chairman Steve Palazzo (R - MS), the lead sponsor of the bill, and full committee chairman Lamar Smith (R - TX) to see if they can reach common ground on the cuts to earth science prior to markup.

The new bill, H.R. 2093, is sponsored by Rep. John Culberson (R - TX), chairman of the House Appropriations Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) subcommittee that funds NASA.

Its costs, estimated to be around $ 1 - 2 billion, were hoped to be mostly covered by private donations, while commercial space companies like SpaceX were mentioned as possible providers for the needed hardware.Yet, during a hearing of the space subcommittee of the House Science Committee in November, Tito stressed that Inspiration Mars should essentially be a NASA mission, calling for Congress to provide most of the funding.

Committee Democrats, led by Nelson, who chairs the Science and Space subcommittee, insisted that the BCA does not govern authorizations, only appropriations.

According to the House Science Committees website (of which Stewart's subcommitee is a part), the chair of the Environment subcommittee oversees:

The draft bill that the House Appropriations Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) subcommittee is scheduled to markup tomorrow morning would allocate $ 150 million to «Mars Next Decade.»

The House Appropriations Commerce - Justice - Science (CJS) subcommittee approved its draft FY2013 CJS appropriations bill today.