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NEWScience Policy provides a weekly summary of activities and events in Washington, DC impacting scientific research, technology development, and innovation policy, as well as what people are saying about them. While not meant to be exhaustive, its aim is to highlight issues that impact the funding for and execution of basic research across disciplines, and the translation of discoveries into the marketplace.
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Congress is taking advantage of this relatively lengthy “work period” (weeks in session between recess) to tackle some big legislation. The Senate began debate on a massive comprehensive immigration reform bill, marked up the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and passed the “Farm Bill,” while the House passed its version of the NDAA and moved [...]
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The House passed its first two FY 2014 spending bills last week, the Military Construction/Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security bills, each with a significant increase over FY 2013 post-sequestration funding levels. The House Appropriations Committee also released and passed out of subcommittee two additional FY 2014 spending bills for the Department of Defense (DoD) and [...]
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Summer officially arrived in DC last week, signaled by the Memorial Day Congressional recess and the first “uh-oh-I-forgot-about-humidity” days. Luckily it was quiet, allowing some time to adjust, but this won’t last for long as Members of Congress return to DC this week to take on the farm bill, try to keep student loan interest [...]
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Despite the significant (about $90 billion) difference between the top line FY 2014 spending numbers that the House and the Senate are using for FY 2014, the House Appropriations Committee approved a plan this week on 302(b) allocations, or the funding levels for the 12 individual appropriations bills. Unfortunately, sequester is playing a significant role [...]
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Little changed this week in the overall funding picture for FY 2014. A $90 billion dollar chasm still exists between what the House is willing to grant and what the Senate is willing to work with as a topline funding level for the FY 2014 budget. Republican House Appropriators did indicate that the 302(b) allocations, [...]
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