Sequestration Resources

AAAS and over one hundred other scientific societies send a letter to the White House and Congress, urging them to avoid the sequestration.

Websites

• AAAS Membership: Personal Testimony from Scientists
• Science Works for U.S. (Impacts on states)
• Association of American Universities
• Coalition Health Funding- NDD United
• Coalition for Life Sciences (CLS) Sequestration Action Zone
• Society for Neuroscience Sequestration Action
• FasterCure Sequestration Station
• NSF Advocacy Clearinghouse
• Aerospace Industries Association
• American Geological Institute
• ScienceWorksForUs.org

Reports and Analyses

• AAAS Sequestration Brief
• Ad Hoc Group For Medical Research
• AIBS Sequestration report
• Bipartisan Policy Center (sequestration)
• Congressional Budget Office
• FASEB Analysis
• FASEB Fact Sheets (summaries of NIH funding by state)
• FASEB Fact Sheets (sequestration loss estimates)
• ITIF
• Research!America (February update)
• Research!America (updated report)
• Research! America
• Senator Tom Harkin (report)
• Third Way

Government Response

• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Defense
• Department of Defense: Secretary Discusses 2014 Defense Budget Request
• Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan
• Department of Energy
• Department of Health and Human Services
• HHS Responds on Sequester Impact
• NASA
• NASA Update
• National Science Foundation
• OMB Director Jeffrey Zients
• Office of Management and Budget

Testimony

• AAMC
• AIA President Marion C. Blakely
• AIBS President Susan Strafford
• AIBS Action Alert
• American Heart Association
• American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America Petition
• Defense Contractors
• United for Medical Research

Video

• AAAS Sequestration Briefing
• AAU, APLU, and The Science Coalition
• Stand With Science: What's Next: An Unproductive Use of Desk Space
• Society for Neuroscience
• AIBS Fiscal Cliff
• American Chemical Society

Articles

• "How Much Science Funding Will the U.S. Budget Sequester Cut?" Scientific American. 12 March 2013.
• "The Sequester is Going to Devastate U.S. Science Research for Decades." The Atlantic. 12 March 2013.
• "Bad Medicine." The Economist. 2 March 2013.
• "Mapping the Effects of the Sequester on Science" NPR. 1 March 2013.
• "Who's afraid of the sequester's ax? Not us, say Republican lawmakers." The Hill. 19 February 2013.
• "Obama says sequester would take 'meat cleaver' to government" The Hill. 19 February 2013.
• "NIH Chief: Cuts put vital medical research at risk." The Washington Times. 14 February 2013.
• "A crucial role in innovation." Politico. 5 February 2013.
• "What the Fiscal Showdown Means for Science." Science Progress. November 2012.
• "UGA and Tech presidents: The fiscal cliff looms." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 17 November 2012.
• “Sequestration: A Countdown to Disaster.” Washington Business Journal.
November 2012.
• “How the White House Could Soften the Blow of the Sequester”
The Washington Post. November 2012.
• “Sequestration Would Cut U.S. Science Budget by 8.2%, White House Estimates.” ScienceInsider. September 2012.
• “Senate Passes Thune-Sessions Sequestration Transparency Act” Press Release, Committee on the Budget Republicans. July 2012.

Congressional Response/Congressional Commissions

• National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (Simpson-Bowles report)
• Bipartisan Policy Center (Domenici report)

Events

• September: Society for Neuroscience Webinar
• November 14: AAAS Hill Briefing on R&D Sequester, 2212 Rayburn House Office Building
• FASEB Stand Up for Science Contest