Word: congress
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Later in the day a group of students, faculty and university presidents mingled with members of Congress on Capitol Hill to try to impart a personal importance to the funding issue...
...main message is that the Congress recognize that a healthy science policy requires a broad-based portfolio," Casey said. "There seems to be broad support for health research, and members of Congress tend to think NIH takes care of that...
...competition for funds is fierce, Klocke said, because the amount of money that Congress has to play with is small despite the large surplus...
...Rudenstine's role in lobbying Congress to maintain federal funding levels for university research programs, all the more crucial since the departure of Harvard's Washington point-person, Vice-President James H. Row III '73, is a welcome use of Harvard's prestige for a purpose beyond enlarging the endowment...
Nationwide, universities get $75 billion in federal research funds, most of which is channeled through organizations like the National Institutes of Health or the National Science Foundation, and schools in Massachusetts receive about $4 billion in such funding. Congress is considering a proposal to reduce such funding by 12.5 percent in the next year, prompting an outcry by many universities and funding recipients...