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Friends of IES, a coalition of organizations including AAU, sent a letter urging Congress to reach an agreement to raise the discretionary budget caps and provide $670M for IES in FY20.
FY20 | Federal Budget | Department of Education | LettersAAU urges Congress and the Administration to harmonize, streamline, and eliminate unnecessary, duplicative regulations and reporting requirements.
Research Administration & Regulation | Reducing Regulatory Burden | RecommendationAAU joined APLU in a letter asking the White House Office of Management & Budget to prioritize research and higher education funding in the Administration's FY20 budget.
Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | FY20 | LettersThis letter is in response to the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) January 26, 2016 Request for Information (RFI), asking for comments on regulations that should be modified, expanded, streamlined, or repealed to increase flexibility and reduce burden.
Higher Education Regulation | Reducing Regulatory Burden | LettersThe Task Force on American Innovation (TFAI) sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging the passage of a bipartisan, bicameral budget agreement that will raise the FY20 and FY21 defense and non-defense discretionary spending caps.
Federal Budget | FY20 | FY21 | LettersA group of 13 coalitions, nine of which AAU is a member, today sent a letter to Congressional leaders urging them to work toward a bipartisan agreement to raise the Budget Control Act’s budget caps for FY20 and 21. The letter asserts that “a bipartisan agreement is needed to permit robust federal…
Federal Budget | FY20 | FY21 | Agency Budgets | LettersAAU joined CUPA-HR-led comments in response to the Labor Department’s proposed overtime rule, which formally rescinds the Department’s 2016 rule. The rule, published in March 2019, would increase the annual salary threshold that determines which employees qualify for overtime pay from $455 to $679…
Reducing Regulatory Burden | CommentsA letter was sent to the Senate Chairman Jerry Moran and Ranking Member Jeanne Shaheen requesting the maximum possible increase in funding for FY20 from FY19 levels for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
FY20 | National Science Foundation | Federal Budget | LettersThe Coalition for National Security Research (CNSR), of which AAU is a member, wrote to the Senate and House Committees on Armed Services, providing FY20 recommendations for the Department of Defense (DOD) to continue to support transformational science and technology (S&T) research.
FY20 | Department of Defense | Federal Budget | Agency Budgets | LettersAAU issued a statement to thank House Appropriators for their efforts to increase funding for higher education and scientific research in the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations Bill.
Federal Budget | FY20 | Student Aid | National Institutes of Health | Department of Education | Press Releases