Two spending panels in the U.S. House of Representatives that hold sway over large chunks
of federal research spending will have new chairs when the 114th Congress convenes in January.
► On Thursday, new chairs for two House of Representatives spending panels that «hold sway over large chunks
of federal research spending» were announced.
Not exact matches
In this webinar, Clean Energy Canada and our guest panelists, Clare Demerse,
Federal Policy Advisor with Clean Energy Canada, Tyler Hamilton, award winning journalist and Canadian author, and Ben Thibault, director
of the Pembina Institute's electricity program, will discuss new
research on Canadian clean energy
spending and deployment, and discuss what these findings mean for...
In this webinar, Clean Energy Canada and our guest panelists, Clare Demerse,
Federal Policy Advisor with Clean Energy Canada, Tyler Hamilton, award winning journalist and Canadian author, and Ben Thibault, director
of the Pembina Institute's electricity program, will discuss new
research on Canadian clean energy
spending and deployment, and discuss what these findings mean for renewable energy developers, clean tech innovators and policy makers across the country.
The fear is that the
federal government could cut grants and
research spending, a major source
of sales for Illumina's DNA sequencing equipment and supplies.
The authors
of the report say that people doing
federal research on things like income,
spending and health should also ask questions about happiness because
of the more developed view it could lend to in setting policies to improve people's lives.
«Reducing unnecessary
spending allows the City to direct resources effectively and build larger reserves as New York City's economy shows signs
of slowing and uncertainty remains around the future
of federal funding,» wrote Riley Edwards, CBC
research associate, in a blog post.
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of the Board
of Directors
of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility [October 18, 2017] Scientific Societies» Letter on President Trump's Visa and Immigration Proclamation [October 17, 2017] AAAS Statement on U.S. Withdrawal from UNESCO [October 12, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Proclamation on Immigration and Visas [September 25, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on ARPA - E Reauthorization Act [September 8, 2017] AAAS Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Halt
of Young Immigrant Program [September 6, 2017] AAAS Statement on Trump Administration Disbanding National Climate Assessment Advisory Committee [August 22, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Issues Statement On Death
of Former Rep. Vern Ehlers [August 17, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt and 15 Other Science Society Leaders Request Climate Science Meeting with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt [July 31, 2017] AAAS Encourages Congressional Appropriators to Invest in
Research and Innovation [July 25, 2017] AAAS CEO Urges Secretary of State to Fill Post of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 2
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of State to Fill Post
of Science and Technology Adviser [July 13, 2017] AAAS and ESA Urge Trump Administration to Protect Monuments [July 7, 2017] AAAS Statement on House Appropriations Bill for the Department
of Energy [June 28, 2017] Scientific Organizations Statement on Science and Government [June 27, 2017] AAAS Statement on White House Executive Order on Cuba Relations [June 16, 2017] AAAS Statement on Paris Agreement on Climate Change [June 1, 2017] AAAS Statement from CEO Rush Holt on Fiscal Year 2018 Budget Proposal [May 23, 2017] AAAS thanks the Congress for prioritizing
research and development funding in the FY 2017 omnibus appropriations [May 9, 2017] AAAS Statement on Dismissal of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality of human - caused climate change [June 2
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of Scientists on EPA Scientific Advisory Board [May 8, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on FY 2017 Appropriations [May 1, 2017] AAAS CEO Statement on Executive Order on Climate Change [March 28, 2017] AAAS leads an intersociety letter on the HONEST Act [March 28, 2017] President's Budget Plan Would Cripple Science and Technology, AAAS Says [March 16, 2017] AAAS Responds to New Immigration Executive Order [March 6, 2017] AAAS CEO Responds to Trump Immigration and Visa Order [January 28, 2017] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement on
Federal Scientists and Public Communication [January 24, 2017] AAAS thanks leaders
of the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act [December 21, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt raises concern over President - Elect Donald Trump's EPA Director Selection [December 15, 2016] AAAS CEO Rush Holt Statement Following the House Passage
of 21st Century Cures Act [December 2, 2016] Letter from U.S. scientific, engineering, and higher education community leaders to President - elect Trump's transition team [November 23, 2016] Letter from AAAS CEO Rush Holt to Senate Leaders and Letter to House Leaders to pass a FY 2017 Omnibus
Spending Bill [November 15, 2016] AAAS reaffirms the reality
of human - caused climate change [June 28, 2016]
«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.»
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.
Federal spending remains the leading source
of basic
research funding in the United States.
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.
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.
«That debate was at full boil last week, when the U.S. House
of Representatives passed the America COMPETES Act, which sets policy for NSF and two other
federal research agencies, and the House Appropriations Committee adopted a 2016
spending bill that includes NSF,» Mervis wrote.
Early - career scientists who wish to win
research funding from
federal agencies face a number
of obstacles, not least
of all the formidable competition: senior researchers who have
spent years improving their grantsmanship skills.
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 mandate, which applies to
federal agencies that
spend more than $ 100 million a year on
research and development, will eventually make hundreds
of thousands
of papers once hidden behind paywalls available to anyone with an Internet connection.
While
research in agriculture constituted 40 percent
of federal R&D
spending in the 1940s, today it is only 2 percent.
Of course, whether NSF is spending its money wisely is part of a larger debate about how much the federal government should invest in researc
Of course, whether NSF is
spending its money wisely is part
of a larger debate about how much the federal government should invest in researc
of a larger debate about how much the
federal government should invest in
research.
State and
federal leaders in Germany have agreed on how to
spend billions
of extra euros on education and
research in the next 4 years.
Overall, two - thirds
of next year's proposed $ 6 billion increase in overall
federal research spending — a 4 % boost to $ 152 billion — would come from mandatory sources.
One outside speaker, Arthur Bienenstock, a physics professor emeritus and special assistant to the president
of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, for
federal research policy, cited a proposal to change how universities are reimbursed for the cost
of supporting federally funded
research that would have resulted in scientists
spending less time in the lab.
Congress is on track to increase
federal spending for
research and development programs by at least $ 3.1 billion in fiscal 2017 over the previous year, a noteworthy boost at a time when overall
federal discretionary
spending is slated to remain flat, according to AAAS» latest analysis
of federal spending programs.
The bill does allocate $ 1 million for a «contract» between the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products and the National Academy
of Medicine to conduct a more thorough study
of the health effects
of e-cigarettes and suggest how
federal funds should be
spent on future e-cigarette
research.
As it stands, the U.S.
spends roughly 0.14 percent
of the
federal budget on energy - related
research.
But imagine the clout
of the person who controlled the tens
of billions dollars that the
federal government currently
spends on
research and development.
Since the discovery
of carp DNA in the waterways near Chicago in 2009, the Asian Carp Regional Coordinating Committee, which consists
of federal, state, and local agencies, has
spent $ 100 million on carp
research and control.
After mentioning the funding he's received from the National Institutes
of Health, he cited data to rebut Trump's proposals to cut
federal research spending.
We hope that Congress will continue on a bipartisan path toward a final omnibus bill for fiscal year 2018 and urge members to raise the budget caps for discretionary
spending, which is how the majority
of federal research and development is funded,» said Holt in a statement.
First, participants were asked to estimate what percentage
of the
federal budget was
spent on scientific
research.
It is the product
of a long and contentious debate in Congress that included efforts to eliminate the Transportation Enhancements program (TEP), which for about 2 decades has required states to
spend a small portion
of their
federal transport funds on 12 types
of activities, including bike and walking paths, but also «archaeological planning &
research,» and «environmental mitigation.»
About half
of the respondents estimated
federal spending for
research at somewhere between 5 and 20 percent
of the budget.
Once they'd guessed, half
of the participants were told the actual amount that the
federal government allocates for nondefense
spending on
research and development.
But even if the Senate, as expected, approves the agreement next week, the scientific community will still be a long way from achieving its long - term goal
of sustained growth in
federal research spending.
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».
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.
The
Federal Aviation Administration's
Research Development and Human Factors Laboratory in Atlantic City, staffed by a rock - star group
of scientists, had given CTs their sole nod
of approval — a decision that meant
spending $ 1 billion on those machines versus $ 150 million for the ATs.
U.S. universities complain about the high cost
of complying with rules to ensure that
federal research dollars are being
spent properly.
All
federal spending on
research and development (about $ 140 billion in 2015) fits into the relatively small «discretionary
spending» portion
of the
federal budget.
As in the 2008 platform, the party backs
federal spending on biomedical
research, but also gives a special shoutout to the value
of neuroscience.
With the rate
of growth in
federal research spending essentially stagnant, universities hoping to profit from some
of the bright ideas
of their faculty must pay more attention than ever to developing partnerships with industry, a top University
of Virginia official said recently at AAAS.
But the
spending blueprint, which would have to be approved by Congress, highlights the financial pressures that civilian
research agencies will face as Trump and the Republican majority in both houses
of Congress attempt to carry out campaign promises to raise defense
spending while reining in the rest
of federal spending.
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).
Overall
federal spending on
research and development (R&D) will grow by 5 % under a fiscal 2017 budget deal expected to be approved by Congress this week, according to an analysis by the R&D Budget and Policy Program at AAAS in Washington, D.C. (publisher
of ScienceInsider).
University administrators and faculty members have long complained that some
of the never - ending stream
of rules designed to ensure that precious
federal research dollars are
spent wisely are time - consuming, unnecessary, and occasionally even conflicting.
«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.»
Federal investments in scientific
research and higher education programs have been curtailed as discretionary
spending caps have been imposed in the absence
of significant reforms to mandatory
spending programs and taxation.
At several large
research universities, including Johns Hopkins, the University
of Washington, the University
of Pennsylvania and Harvard,
federal dollars comprised 80 percent
of research spending.
An Education Week
Research Center analysis
of federal data shows
spending levels per student in most U.S. school districts for fiscal year 2013.
If government invested a similar percentage
of public K - 12 education
spending, it would be
spending $ 17 billion per year on education
research and development, rather than the $ 770 million the
federal government now
spends (see figure).