AAU sent a letter to party leaders urging them to reach a bipartisan FY18 budget agreement that raises defense and non-defense discretionary spending caps.
The Task Force on American Innovation, of which AAU is a member, urged Congress to provide relief from the current Budget Control Act caps in order to make robust science investments a priority.
AAU joined several other higher education associations in a letter to the Committee on Education and the Workforce to express concern with H.R. 4508, the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success, and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act.
AAU has sent a letter to the House Committee on Ways and Means and to the Senate Committee on Finance expressing concern on the Tax Cuts and Jobs act, H.R. 1.
AAU joins six other associations in letter sent to FCC in support of open and neutral access to the Internet.
AAU joined other education associations in supporting Senator James Lankford's charitable giving amendment (#1593) to H.R. 1, the Senate version of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
AAU and higher education associations comment on higher education provisions in the Senate version of H.R. 1. the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
AAU joined 45 other higher education associations to express concerns with the Senate version of H.R. 1, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
AAU and four other higher education associations wrote to the EPA to ask it reconsider a recent directive barring scientists who receive EPA grants from serving in advisory roles.
AAU President Mary Sue Coleman sent letters to congressional leaders urging them to preserve universities' ability, through their endowments, to serve students and society.