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	<title>COMPUTING RESEARCH POLICY BLOG &#187; Funding</title>
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		<title>Cybersecurity Research on House Floor Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House of Representatives will consider H.R. 4061, the Cyber Security Enhancement Act, today. The bill, which originated in the House Science and Technology Committee, is designed to &#8220;improve the security of cyberspace by ensuring federal investments in cybersecurity are better focused, more effective, and that research into innovative, transformative technologies is supported.&#8221; It&#8217;s actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCIENCEWORKSFORUS LAUNCH</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/11/scienceworksforus-launch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ScienceWorksForUS, a joint effort by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), and The Science Coalition (TSC), launched today on Capitol Hill with Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in attendance. The interesting and much needed initiative is designed to illustrate how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Week on Research in Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRA frequently talks about the need for more basic scientific research but we focus almost exclusively on governmental research investment. We talk about the fall of DARPA and the need for NSF to increase to compensate. We don&#8217;t spend quite as much time talking about industry investment in basic research. An article in Business Week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Announces New Commitment to R&amp;D Funding, PCAST Members</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FY10 Appropriations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The President used a speech before the members of the National Academy of Sciences today to reiterate his commitment to boosting the U.S. investment in science and technology.In his remarks before the opening session of the National Academy&#8217;s annual meeting, Obama set a goal of seeing the U.S. invest 3 percent or more of its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House S&amp;T Committee Focuses on IT at NITRD Hearing</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/04/house-st-committee-focuses-on-it-at-nitrd-hearing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/04/house-st-committee-focuses-on-it-at-nitrd-hearing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CRA&#8217;s incoming Board Chair Peter Lee, Deborah Estrin of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Chris Greer of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) National Coordinating Office testified before the House Science and Technology Committee last week on the NITRD Act of 2009. The Act incorporates the findings and recommendations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual Capitol Hill Science Fair A Great Success</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/annual-capitol-hill-science-fair-a-great-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/annual-capitol-hill-science-fair-a-great-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition for National Science Funding, of which CRA is an active member, held its annual Science Exhibition on Capitol Hill last week. It was once again a great success with a room full of hundreds of attendees and a number of Congressmen visiting exhibits. For the first time, the Speaker of the House Nancy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FY 09 Omnibus Details: Further Increases for Science</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/fy-09-omnibus-details-further-increases-for-science/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/03/fy-09-omnibus-details-further-increases-for-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[American Competitiveness Initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FY09 Appropriations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House has passed and the Senate is now considering omnibus legislation that would enact the unfinished FY 2009 appropriations bills Congress ought to have passed last September (but elected to punt). Included in the omnibus are appropriations for a number of key science agencies &#8212; appropriations that contain some significant increases for those agencies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Action Alert!: Stimulus Headed to Conference!</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/action-alert-stimulus-headed-to-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/action-alert-stimulus-headed-to-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMPUTING RESEARCH ADVOCACY NETWORK
**ACTION ALERT**
THE SITUATION:
Now that the Senate has narrowly passed its version of the economic stimulus, the bill will head to conference with the House to work out some of the significant differences between the two versions &#8212; including significant differences in how the science investments in the bill are handled. The conference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft&#8217;s Ballmer Tells House Dems We Need STEM Ed, Research Investments</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/microsofts-ballmer-tells-house-dems-we-need-stem-ed-research-investments/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/microsofts-ballmer-tells-house-dems-we-need-stem-ed-research-investments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Stimulus and Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer spoke today at the House Democratic Caucus Retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia, and urged the Members present to support investments in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and increase federal support for basic research. The STEM ed investments are really the government&#8217;s investments in human capital, he said, which are necessary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Action Alert!: Urge Your Representatives to Support Science in the Stimulus!</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/action-alert-urge-your-representatives-to-support-science-in-the-stimulus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2009/02/action-alert-urge-your-representatives-to-support-science-in-the-stimulus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Action Alerts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;re asking members of our Computing Research Advocacy Network (CRAN) &#8212; and anyone else with an interest in seeing fundamental research and research infrastructure budgets reflect their critical importance to the long-term health of U.S. economy and quality of life &#8212; to contact their representatives in Congress and urge their support for science funding [...]]]></description>
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