Sentences with phrase «federal science spending»

Scientists welcomed those announcements, but were unenthusiastic to hear that the government will conduct the latest in a series of reviews of federal science spending.

His latest budget, released on 14 February, puts numbers to the rhetoric, with a US$ 66.8 - billion request for federal science spending.

The president delivered his budget request to Congress on May 23, presenting the sharpest picture yet of his administration's priorities for federal science spending.

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Over at the White House Office of Management and Budget, Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters in March that spending federal money on climate science is «a waste of your money.»

Perhaps best known for advocating that the nation guard against the potential influence of the military — industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the speech also expressed concerns about planning for the future and the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect of the domination of science through Federal funding and, conversely, the domination of science - based public policy by what he called a «scientific - technological elite».

The radio ads criticize Buerkle, claiming she supports a Republican bill to cut federal education spending by 40 percent, as well as reduce science and technology research spending by 40 percent.

The bipartisan budget deal reached in late October offers some much - needed relief for federal science agencies, but it remains a temporary fix for programs hit by the spending caps known as «sequestration ``, which took effect in 2013.

As mentioned above, science and technology funding in the Obama years ultimately fell victim to broader Congressional efforts to shrink federal spending and deficits.

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This suggests that the expansion in federal investment in R&D over the past several decades has resulted not only from a commitment to the «endless frontier» of science and technology, but perhaps as importantly from the general growth of discretionary spending which allowed greater government investments to be made in a variety of areas including S&T.

This matters because discretionary spending is where just about all science and technology lives in the federal budget, and House appropriators have written their spending bills with these changes in mind.

Holt pointed to the far - reaching implications of the proposed reductions in non-defense discretionary spending for science and engineering programs spread across the federal government.

When it comes to federal research spending, there are «some silly good numbers in here,» tweeted Matt Hourihan, who analyzes U.S. science spending patterns for AAAS (publisher of ScienceInsider) in Washington, D.C., when the deal was released this past Wednesday.

Drawing increasingly on support from foundations and federal agencies, the Association has built pioneering programs for bringing underrepresented groups into science; applying science to human rights; supporting the growth of science in the developing world; exploring issues of science, ethics, and law; tracking federal spending for R&D; and in bringing scientists and engineers to work in Congress and executive agencies of government.

Mauricio Horn, the visiting Secretariat of Scientific Technological Articulation adviser, spent a month at AAAS, learning about all aspects of AAAS» Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program, attending its training sessions, meeting with federal officials who work with the fellows AAAS places in their agencies and attending events sponsored by former fellows who have organized special topic - specific groups.

Total federal research spending would be slashed by about 17 percent, Rush Holt, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said in a conference call with reporters.

A constitutional amendment approved last year prohibits the federal government to increase spending above inflation for the next 20 years The situation is «dramatic,» says the science ministry's executive secretary, Elton Zacarias.

Historically, the federal government has provided the bulk of the nation's spending on fundamental science, defined as studies undertaken without «specific applications towards processes or products in mind.»

Rising enrollments in graduate science degree programs and relatively flat federal spending on academic science mean that, if anything, the academic job market is likely to get worse in the coming years.

A new interactive online tool, launched today by AAAS, makes it easier to spot U.S. federal funding trends such as the continuing rise in mandatory spending for programs such as Social Security with spending levels set by law, a shift which has left a smaller percentage of the overall federal budget for science and other so - called «discretionary» expenses.

The debate about whether the federal government should spend money on basic research instead of giving more to applied research is an old one, said Melinda Baldwin, a lecturer in the history of science at Harvard University.

The discretionary budget — the part of the budget Congress has to allocate annually through the appropriations process — only represents about a third of all federal outlays, but contains virtually all science and technology spending.

Another tab puts those science investments into context for the same time period, showing R&D spending as a percentage of the overall federal budget as well as the nation's economy.

Removing the across - the - board spending caps known as «sequestration» to achieve modest increases for federal science agencies is a «strategic imperative,» George Washington University President Steven Knapp and AAAS CEO Rush D. Holt wrote this week in Roll Call.

Rep. Cooper first had the idea for the Golden Goose Award when the late Senator William Proxmire (D - WI) was issuing the Golden Fleece Award to target wasteful federal spending and often targeted peer - reviewed science because it sounded odd.

The measure could boost federal spending for science research, but tough decisions about how to divvy it up are still to come.

Trump's draconian budget request — which suggested drastic cuts to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), among others — was rejected by Congress, and a spending bill that increases funding for science at many federal agencies was signed into law.

The co-chair of a new White House report on strengthening science education says its recommendations will not add significantly to federal spending.

The total 2010 budget for the department as a whole would grow to $ 26.3 billion from $ 24 billion in 2008; the projection for 2009 is $ 33.9 billion, plus a whopping $ 39 billion for energy programs under the stimulus package recently passed and $ 1.6 billion for the Office of Science, which federal bureaucrats plan to spend primarily on building scientific facilities.

They also suggest that science won out over domestic spending priorities, notably federal assistance to state budgets.

... among the cuts the federal government's 2010 budget, announced on Thursday, is $ 1 million the Obama Administration decided not to spend on the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation (CCFF), an organization established to recognize the accomplishments of researchers and science students and educators.

There are other ways to try to create incentives for greater support of science by industry, by philanthropy; and those ought to be pursued too because I think the record shows that we simply can't depend entirely on the Federal government — especially in view of the kind of fluctuations that result from either depressions in the national treasury; that result from reductions and tax revenues; or the expenditures sometimes unexpected like Katrina; or unfortunate expenditures like the ones we are spending now in Iraq.

Finally, all the participants were asked if federal spending on science should be increased, decreased or kept the same.

was issuing the Golden Fleece Award to target wasteful federal spending and often targeted peer - reviewed science because it sounded odd.

The last 25 percent of respondents estimated that 1 to 2 percent of federal spending went to science.

American physicist Harvey Brooks, a member of the president's Science Advisory Committee during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, noted how the 2 per cent of GDP spent on science by the federal government had a «disproportionate social and economic leverage, since the whole thrust of the economy is determined by scientific and technical research&Science Advisory Committee during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, noted how the 2 per cent of GDP spent on science by the federal government had a «disproportionate social and economic leverage, since the whole thrust of the economy is determined by scientific and technical research&science by the federal government had a «disproportionate social and economic leverage, since the whole thrust of the economy is determined by scientific and technical research».

The new budget plan, which is expected to be rubber - stamped later this month by the Parliament, boosts federal spending by 5 % for three of Germany's major research and granting institutions: the Max Planck Society; the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Germany's basic research granting agency; and a bit more for the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft applied science agency.

Congress» failure to reach an agreement on a stopgap spending measure before a midnight deadline marks another setback for the nation's scientific enterprise, interrupting activities of the nation's federal health, science and space agencies, according to a statement by the American Association for the Advancement of Sscience and space agencies, according to a statement by the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceScience.

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Compounding the Administration's self - restraint was the expected squeeze on science by the Republican - led House of Representatives as part of a relentless campaign to trim overall federal spending and reduce the deficit.

As the top Democrat on a spending panel that oversees several federal research agencies, Fattah has pushed successfully for greater federal investment in basic research and science education, with a special focus on neuroscience.

The spending cuts known as «sequestration» that were triggered in March sliced $ 9.3 billion from federal research and development projects, according to an analysis from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

The chunk of the federal budget that includes most of the U.S. government's spending on basic science would shrink by 10.5 % in 2018 under a plan outlined today by President Donald Trump and administration officials.

Money can be spent immediately: Federal funding for non-defense research has fallen in real dollars every year since 2004 for the life sciences and far longer for the physical sciences.

This funding is on top of the nearly $ 700 million the federal government already spends on science and math education programs within the National...

For example, some states prohibited districts from spending Title I on school climate supports, counselors, science, or other costs other than reading and math, even though that wasn't required by federal law and didn't reflect state policy priorities.

The Senate had approved $ 90 million — compared with $ 100 million in the 1985 spending bill — for what was once intended to be the federal government's flagship program to improve mathematics and science education.

The federal government deployed powerful resources to promote math reform and the National Science Foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars training teachers in three different systemic reform initiatives.

The team members in charge of spending the school's federal Title I dollars decided that in addition to buying lab tables, stools, and microscopes, they would hire a science teacher to do laboratory experiments with the students.

«Spending time planning lessons with teachers in the classroom, there's no substituting for that kind of work,» said Rosen, who recently received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest award given by the federal government to math and science teScience Teaching, the highest award given by the federal government to math and science tescience teachers.