President Snyder sent a letter to House and Senate leaders outlining priorities for several key provisions that Congress is discussing as part of the conference process for the Senate-passed USICA and the House-passed America COMPETES Act.
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AAU and others sent a letter urging Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to “provide as much flexibility and support as possible for Ukrainian students and scholars currently in the U.S., and for students and scholars seeking to leave Ukraine during the current crisis.”
AAU sent a letter encouraging members of the Agriculture Subcommittees of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees to support “increased investments to advance agricultural research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)” in the FY22 agriculture appropriations bill
AAU and 63 other higher education associations urged House and Senate leaders to take immediate action to address repeated bomb threats at HBCU campuses and to immediately pass a concurrent resolution condemning the violence and reaffirming support for HBCUs.
AAU has joined in endorsing a letter sent by ACE in responding to a U.S. Department of Justice Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking the clarification and modernization of the implementing regulations for the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA).
AAU joined 12 other higher education associations in submitting comments to the Federal Trade Commission regarding its notice of proposed rulemaking concerning “Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information.”
AAU sent a letter to Secretary Mayorkas thanking him for his leadership in reestablishing the Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council (HSAAC).
AAU sent a letter to Congress urging passage of final FY22 appropriations and Build Back Better Act provisions important to our nation’s health, economic competitiveness, security, and crucial government-university research partnership.
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United for Medical Research, of which AAU is a founding member, sent a letter urging OMB Acting Director Shalanda Young to include an increase of at least $3 billion to the base budget of the National Institutes of Health for FY23.
AAU and 13 other organization sent a follow-up letter requesting a response from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services on a previous letter, sent in March, 2021, that had urged the agency quickly to implement provisions of the “Emergency Stopgap USCIS Stabilization Act” included in H.R. 8337, the “Continuing Appropriations Act, 2021 and Other Extensions Act.”