Week in Review, or Politicizing Science
In betwixt ongoing budget battles, and even during recess break, research continued to get politicized this week with House Science Committee Chair Lamar Smith again vocal in his bid to overhaul the peer review process at NSF. On Monday, Chairman Smith released the text of the draft bill — the High Quality Research Act. As [...]
Week in Review, or Micromanaging Research Budgets
Amidst the tragedies in Boston and Texas this last week, Congress debated gun safety, immigration, and whether the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) should have to certify all NSF research grants as “in the national interest.” Regarding the FY 2014 budget, new information emerged this week about the President’s budget request, including the [...]
Week in Review, or FY 2014 Budget - The Sequel
On Wednesday April 10th, the President delivered his FY 2014 budget request to Congress. You may recall that this delivery normally takes place the first week of February, but has been delayed this year due to uncertainties surrounding the “fiscal cliff” deal and sequestration, the across-the-board spending cuts that kicked in back on March 1st. [...]
Week in Review, or Moving Forward with FY 2013
We will be taking a cue from Congress and enjoying a recess of our own over the next two weeks. Follow NSP on Twitter (@NEWSciPol), and keep an eye out for the next Week in Review on April 8th. After what has been a very busy few weeks with members of Congress and the President [...]
Week in Review, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sequester
From all indications last week, Congress will not act to postpone the sequester currently on schedule to go into effect in less than 100 hours on March 1st. Instead, members seem to be hedging bets on the constituent response to what has been called on both sides of the aisle a “poison pill”. The strategy [...]
Week in Review, or Super Bowl Surprise
Fans and players enjoying the Super Bowl last night were caught by surprise early in the third quarter when half of the electricity in the New Orleans Superdome went out. While waiting for the power to come power back on, I had my eye on Twitter, which was flooded almost immediately with tweets about improving [...]
Week in Review, or Science and the Second Term
Hundreds of thousands of people descended on DC yesterday to celebrate President Obama’s second inauguration. Not surprisingly, science and research featured prominently in the President’s inaugural speech at the Capitol - firstly regarding climate change, saying “Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires [...]
Week in Review, or Dissing the Death Star
As we head into NEWScience Policy’s third year (!), I am pleased to announce a new partner in crime. Amanda Arnold, Senior Policy Advisor in MIT’s Washington DC Office, will join me this year in editing the Week in Review. I’m sure her policy expertise and sense of humor will be a great addition to [...]
Week in Review, or Still Standing Still
With only three weeks left before the end of the year, no discernible progress has been made on how to avoid the “fiscal cliff” the country is expected to face on January 1st when individual tax breaks expire and massive spending cuts (a.k.a. sequestration) kick in. Democrats and Republicans traded proposals last week, but each [...]
Week in Review, or Turkey Time Out
With the threat of the “fiscal cliff” still looming, members of Congress left town last week for Thanksgiving recess. They are expected back this week for the final stretch of the lame duck session that will likely last until the wee hours of December. Despite the optimism coming out of White House recently after meetings [...]
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