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	<title>COMPUTING RESEARCH POLICY BLOG &#187; Policy</title>
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		<title>STEM Education Initiatives Announced</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/02/stem-education-initiatives-announced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was STEM education day for the Administration. In the morning at a White House Science Fair, President Obama announced he will seek $80 million in the FY13 budget of the Department of Education to help train 100,000 more STEM teachers along with policies to recruit, retain, and reward STEM teachers. The full announcement can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States Report Released</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2012/01/competitiveness-and-innovative-capacity-of-the-united-states-report-released/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Department of Commerce and National Economic Council today released a new report on &#8220;The Competitiveness and Innovation Capacity of the United States&#8221; at an event featuring Secretary of Commerce John Bryson followed by a panel of speakers and small group breakout sessions. The report was a Congressional mandate in the COMPETES reauthorization last year. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senate Minibus Cuts NSF, NASA and NIST</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday the Senate managed passage of its first so-called &#8220;minibus&#8221; appropriation bill &#8211;  a combination of FY12 Agriculture Appropriation; Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriation; and Transportation-HUD Appropriations bills &#8212; and retained the cuts to the FY12 budget of the National Science Foundation budget we covered back when the bill was first approved by the Senate Appropriations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computer Science Education Act Introduced</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/09/computer-science-education-act-introduced/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computing Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diversity in Computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the theme of computing taking over the Hill this week, Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) and Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced the Computer Science Education Act (CSEA) yesterday. In the House, the bill is co-sponsored by Representative Bob Filner (D-CA), Representative James Langevin (D-RI), and Representative Silvestre Reyes (D-TX). The bill is designed to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Computing Community Takes Case to Hill</title>
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		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/09/computing-community-takes-case-to-hill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:41:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a busy day on Capitol Hill yesterday for members of the computing research community as they worked to make the case to Congress of the importance of the federal investment in research from a couple of different angles. From one direction, a panel of current and former CRA board members joined the head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstructing the iPad</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/09/deconstructing-the-ipad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chick-fil-A and the iPad – what more could you want at lunch? Well, that’s exactly what the Task Force on American Innovation, along with Rep. Hultgren (R-IL), Rep. McCaul (R-TX), and Rep. Quayle (R-AZ), are offering at tomorrow’s briefing, “Deconstructing the iPad: How Federally Supported Research Leads to Game-Changing Innovation” in 2325 Rayburn at noon. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Science Numbers in the FY11 Continuing Resolution</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/04/science-numbers-in-the-fy11-continuing-resolution/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/04/science-numbers-in-the-fy11-continuing-resolution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the House and Senate leadership, along with the White House, reached an agreement on a final budget for the federal government through September 30, 2011 (or FY11, for short). The agreement helped avert a government shutdown over the weekend and will finally give federal agencies some certainty about the funding they&#8217;ll have available [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CCC Announces Science Policy Institute for Computing Researchers</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/04/ccc-announces-science-policy-institute-for-computing-researchers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/04/ccc-announces-science-policy-institute-for-computing-researchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/?p=978</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, if you&#8217;re a regular reader of this blog, you&#8217;re probably someone who&#8217;d be interested in CRA&#8217;s most recent effort to increase science policy literacy amongst the computing research community. Today CRA&#8217;s Computing Community Consortium is putting out a Call for Nominations for participants in a workshop hosted by the new CCC Leadership in Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DOE Office of Science FY2012 Budget Request</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/02/doe-office-of-science-fy2012-budget-request/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/02/doe-office-of-science-fy2012-budget-request/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaNorr</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[FY12 Appropriations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the State of the Union in January, President Obama said, &#8220;We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time. We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world. We have to make America the best place on Earth to do business. We need to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Approps Proposes Even More Cuts for NSF, DOE</title>
		<link>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/02/house-approps-cuts-science-even-more-for-fy11/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cra.org/govaffairs/blog/2011/02/house-approps-cuts-science-even-more-for-fy11/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 01:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Harsha</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Appropriations Committee released their spending cuts version 2.0 &#8212; after having their previous attempt to cut $74 billion from the President&#8217;s request for non-defense discretionary spending savaged by conservative Republicans in the House &#8211;  and NSF and DOE both face significant cuts. The appropriators went back and took another look at their first [...]]]></description>
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