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#WeatherReady Nation
On Thursday, we held a Full Committee hearing titled, “The Future of Forecasting: Building a Weather-Ready National on All…
Research Security in the U.S.
On Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight and Subcommittee on Research and Technology held a joint hearing titled, “Balancing Open Science and Security in the U.S. Research Enterprise.” Committee Members discussed the risks to research integrity and security posed by undue foreign influence in the U.S. research enterprise. The…
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The Social Media Black Box
On Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight held a hearing titled, “The Disinformation Black Box: Researching Social Media…
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The ISS and NASA’s Future in Low Earth Orbit
On Tuesday, the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics held a hearing titled, “NASA’s Future in Low Earth Orbit: Considerations…
By Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson
When President Kennedy spoke to students at Rice University in 1962, he answered an important question after declaring, during a joint session of Congress, an American would step foot on the moon before the decade was out. The question: Why the Moon? “Why choose this…
Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Congresswoman Lizzie Fletcher (D-TX)
Climate change is bringing more uncertainty in our daily lives.
As the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report made clear, climate change is affecting many weather and climate events in every region across the globe. These climate extremes…
On June 28, 2021 the U.S. House of Representatives Passed two pieces of bipartisan legislation which will shape the future of the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy Office of Science:
H.R. 2225, the NSF for the Future Act & H.R. 3593, the DOE Science for the Future Act
What happens next?
A bill must pass both the Senate and the House of Representatives before it can go to the President for their signature.
Is there a Senate companion to these two bills? Is it the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act which passed the Senate in June?
Not exactly.
