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AAU sent a letter to Congressional leadership urging them to raise the FY18 defense and non-defense discretionary spending caps.
AAU sent a letter to budget leadership urging them to raise discretionary spending caps in FY18 Budget Resolution.
AAU sent a letter to Thomas Price, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management & Budget, to express concern about funding cuts to NIH.
A joint association letter was sent to the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology regarding the May 24, 2017 hearing on the cost of research.

This multi-organization letter urges leadership in the House and Senate to reject Administration-proposed cuts to science as they begin crafting the fiscal year 2018 appropriations.

Congressional leaders are urged to consider the following points in their deliberations:

Associations express concern on proposed supplemental questions for visa applications.
AAU, APLU, COGR, and over 200 research universities send letter urging Cures Act mandate.
Our nation’s research enterprise is among the most powerful engines for American prosperity. One of the consistent areas of bipartisan agreement over the past 70 years has been the importance of the federal government’s role in supporting research and innovation.