Under President Donald Trump's 2018 budget proposal,
federal research spending into all three areas — and many others — would decline abruptly.
Not exact matches
«Depending on whether you're a Republican or a Democrat, passage of the Scientific
Research in the National Interest Act (HR 3293) is either a simple reminder that
federal dollars should be
spent wisely, or an unwise and unwarranted intrusion
into NSF's grantsmaking process.»
Assuming the winner didn't capture a majority of the vote, second place would have been good enough to get Westin
into a May runoff for the chance to unseat Representative John Culberson, a nine - term Republican who chairs a
spending panel that shapes the budgets of several
federal research agencies.
But new
federal spending initiatives, such as the Canada
Research Chairs and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) infrastructure grants, are breathing new life into scientific research in
Research Chairs and the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) infrastructure grants, are breathing new life
into scientific
research in
research in Canada.
All
federal spending on
research and development (about $ 140 billion in 2015) fits
into the relatively small «discretionary
spending» portion of the
federal budget.
Despite a recent budget proposal from the Obama administration to increase
spending on
federal R&D by 7 % next year, dollars flowing to
research have largely been flat in recent years, and declining when inflation is taken
into account.
«Rather than inject politics
into this process, our discussion today should instead concentrate on how to safeguard the often unexpected process of discovery inherent in scientific inquiry, while ensuring that
federal dollars
spent on
research remains completely and fully accountable taxpayers.»
The
federal, Ontario and Quebec governments say they will
spend $ 200 million to help fund
research into 5G wireless technology, the next - generation networks with download speeds 100 times faster than current ones can handle.
We've
spent years on
federal research and more time getting Reading First underway, only to have it turn
into another political football.
Puzzlingly, lack of
research evidence has not stimulated rigorous
research (funded by the
federal government or the nation's many foundations, for example)
into why so little if any progress occurred and how
federal money was actually used by the schools or departments of education that
spent it.
Such a dilemma brings to question the debate over government subsidies, as well as the billions of dollars in
federal spending that gets dumped
into the
research well.