Senate funding bill: NIH prioritized
Yesterday, the U.S. Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies released a summary statement of the details of their fiscal 2016 bill.
Science policy news weekly roundup: June 19, 2015
The roundup is formatted with the title of the story, followed by the news source in parentheses and a brief summary. If you find a particularly interesting article, please send it to smartin@asbmb.org for inclusion in next week’s roundup. Stay tuned to the Policy Blotter next week as we discuss reproducibility in research and explore just exactly what is going on with the fiscal 2016 budgeting process.
Science policy news weekly roundup: January 23, 2015
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What we’re watching in 2015: federal research funding
In this four-part series, we will take a look at important issues for the research community in 2015. Today’s topic is federal research funding. Last week’s topic, the 21st Century Cures Initiative, can be found here. Next week, we will look at the NIH and the NSF.
Science funding in 2015
This evening, a bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would fund the government for the rest of fiscal 2015. This appropriations bill combines all twelve appropriations bills that Congress works on during the year and condenses it into a single omnibus bill.