AAU recommends $5.34 billion for the DOE Office of Science.
AAU supports $7.7 billion for the National Science Foundation.
AAU urges Congress to provide $32 billion for the National Institutes of Health.
The President presented the Administration's proposed budget for FY16 on February 2.
Recent developments in the federal courts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have dramatically reduced abusive patent litigation while ensuring that job creating innovators can continue to protect their ideas, eliminating the need for broad new legislation.
The genesis of some of our nation’s greatest scientific discoveries, technological innovations, healthcare interventions and military strategies have grown from the social and behavioral sciences funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense (DoD), and other federal agencies.
The Great Ape Protection and Cost Saving Act of 2011 would ban all life-saving research involving chimpanzees.
Statement regarding the DATA Act establishing a Federal Accountability and Spending Transparency Board that collects and reviews financial reports from federally funded entities, directly or through a sub-grant or sub-contract.
The Grant Reform and New Transparency (GRANT) Act aims to provide greater transparency to federal grant programs as a means of increasing accountability. The bill requires the creation of new government-wide public website on which information on all federal grants would be posted. Under current laws and regulations governing federal research grants, universities and their faculty already provide to the federal government comprehensive financial and compliance information, which is publicly available.
Backgrounder on the Higher Education Opportunity Act enacted on August 14, 2008, and reauthorizes the HEA of 1965.