FIRST Bill

The Pernicious Problem of Those FIRST Steps
Academic Funding
June 23, 2014

The Pernicious Problem of Those FIRST Steps

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Comparing Senate Calm, House Storm on SBE Front
Academic Funding
June 5, 2014

Comparing Senate Calm, House Storm on SBE Front

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Whither, or Wither, Social Science at the NSF?
Academic Funding
June 2, 2014

Whither, or Wither, Social Science at the NSF?

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$50 Million SBE Cut Moves Forward to the Full House
Academic Funding
May 28, 2014

$50 Million SBE Cut Moves Forward to the Full House

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House Panel Wants to Strip That $50 Million from SBE Again

House Panel Wants to Strip That $50 Million from SBE Again

The funding seesaw for that corner of the federal government that pays for a majority of university-based social science in the United States swung lower on Wednesday afternoon.

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Two Visions of NSF Funding Before House This Week

Two Visions of NSF Funding Before House This Week

The National Science Foundation, which funds the majority of university-based social science research in the United States, will see two different ideas of how its research budget should be overseen in play this week in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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NSF Funding Bill Report Includes Two Curious Items

NSF Funding Bill Report Includes Two Curious Items

UPDATED, While the FY2015 funding bill for science includes a record budget for the NSF, two paragraphs in the document are raising red flags in the social and behavioral science community.

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National Science Board Critical of FIRST Elements

National Science Board Critical of FIRST Elements

National Science Board steps beyond its usual comfort zone to lodge a criticism of NSF re-authorization bill that would establish role for Congress in picking research funding winners and losers.

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NSF Chief Presents Budget to House Thursday

NSF Chief Presents Budget to House Thursday

The Executive Branch’s proposed budget for NSF in the coming fiscal year will be presented to the House Appropriations Committee on Thursday. A competing spending plan that would be markedly less friendly to social, behavioral and economic science is already circulating.

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Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained

Lipinski Suggests Damage From FIRST Might Be Contained

How concerned should the social science community be about the still substantial chunk of money missing from federal social science support in a hotly contested National Science Foundation reauthorization bill? According to Daniel Lipinski, the very conservative Democratic congressman whose amendment backfilled $50 million that even more conservative Republicans wanted to take away, a lot and a little.

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UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle

UPDATED: FIRST Bill Passes First Legislative Hurdle

A bill that would dramatically reduce the amount of money that the federal government spends on social science research advanced after passing in a House of Representatives subcommittee on a party-line vote this morning.

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UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST

UPDATED: Social Science Advocates Uniting to Oppose FIRST

Thursday’s mark-up of a bill that nearly cuts the National Science Foundation’s social science spending in half is stirring up the academic community.

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