Sentences with phrase «sustained federal investment»

In 1945, Bush urged for a bigger and more sustained federal investment in science, writing that «since health, well - being, and security are proper concerns of Government, scientific progress is, and must be, of vital interest to Government.»

A campaign to raise public awareness of the critical need for sustained federal investment in medical research conducted through the National Institutes of Health.

5:23 p.m. Updated A group of graduate students has posted a letter and video message to Congress aimed at sustaining federal investment in basic science in an era of cost - cutting and political paralysis and polarization.

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In my judgment, that kind of leadership will require a comprehensive and sustained effort from both our public and private sectors — including a robust investment in education (especially the STEM fields), a federal commitment to research and development, a renewed emphasis on next generation manufacturing, translating federally funded breakthroughs to commercial applications in the private sector, an immigration policy that enables us to recruit and retain the best and brightest scientists from around the world, and appropriate tax, regulatory, and legal policy.

Federal investment should be sustained these programs, as well as College Access Challenge Grants, which have successfully increased the number of youth pursuing postsecondary degrees that provide them with the skills necessary for success in today's economy.

These projects, competitively funded through the Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) Capital Investment Grant Program (CIG), will create or sustain thousands of good construction - related jobs and help communities expand transportation choices that offer new ladders of opportunity for hard - working families.

A recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in physics, Richter was a signatory on a letter from 34 Nobel laureates to Obama last year pushing for a big and sustained rise in the federal investment in energy research.

My sense is that a better approach is to recognize, from the start, the reality that shifting energy norms, even as coal remains a core energy source, will be a process unfolding over decades, and making sure that legislation, while pushing standards for cutting energy waste and pollution, also focuses on support in all the arenas that matter to building a sustained energy quest — including education to create the intellectual capacity for such an undertaking and sustained and increased direct support for basic inquiry in science and technology — an area where there's been bipartisan disinterest in federal investment for decades.

The 2010 Budget proposes investing $ 150 billion over 10 years from cap - and - trade revenues in clean energy technologies because the Administration believes that a sustained commitment on that scale is needed not only to make the multi-year federal investments needed to bring new technologies to commercialization but also to send a signal to private companies that the federal government is investing for the long term.