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2003

• House and Senate Think Small: Nanotech Bills Advance (6/30/03)
• GOP Moderates Question Bush Stem Cell Policy (6/30/03)
• Hydrogen: The Gas of the Future? (6/30/03)
• House Considers Change to IP Provision (6/30/03)

• FY '04 R&D Budget Proposes Modest Growth (4/15/03)
• Long-Delayed '03 Budget Provides Historic Increases for R&D (4/15/03)
• Congress Debates Hydrogen Initiative (4/15/03)
• Bi-Cameral Hearing on the Columbia Disaster (4/15/03)
• Hatch Claims Close to Sixty Votes for Cloning Bill (4/15/03)

2002

• 107th Congress Adjourns, Record R&D Increases on Hold (12/20/02)
• Congress Passes NSF Doubling Bill (12/20/02)
• Cyber Security Bill Becomes Law (12/20/02)
• Homeland Security Department to House New S&T Infrastructure (12/20/02)
• Elections Bring Modest Changes for S&T

• NSF Doubling Bill Moves Forward
• Patenting Plants
• S&T Intact in Gramm-Miller
• Skepticism Still Lingers on SEVIS
• CA Passes Landmark Stem Cell Bill
• Partnering Against Terrorism

• S&T in the New Homeland Security Department
• Sound Science for Endangered Species
• Climate Change Heats Up Hill
• DOE Next on the Doubling Bandwagon
• Scientific Research Integrity

• NSF Budget: Do I Hear Triple?
• Cloning Debate Comes to a Halt
• Technology Assessment Gains Momentum
• Examining Protections for Human Research Subjects
• R&D in Homeland Security

• Energy Debates Spur Tug-of-War Over "Sound Science"
• Cloning Comes Down to the Wire
• Research, Innovation, and Patents
• Tracking Foreign Science Students
• Boehlert Supports NSF Doubling
• Three Speeches, Three Visions:
  • Marburger, O'Keefe, Boehlert

• Balancing a Different Budget
  • Chart: Trends in Federal Research by Discipline, FY 1970-2000 (PDF)
• Missile Defense "Spiraling" Toward Success
• Sea Grant Transfer Dead in the Water?
  • Sea Grant Facts
• Patenting Genes

• R&D Budget Request for FY 2003: DOD and NIH Big Winners
  • Table: R&D in the FY 2003 Budget (PDF)
• Senate Braces for Cloning Debate
• House Passes Cybersecurity Bill
• Spotlight on Bioterrorism

• Largest Increase in History for Federal R&D
  • Table: R&D in FY 2002 Appropriation

2001

December

• Cloudy Future for Space Station as NASA Gets New Chief
• Counterterrorism R&D Rises in FY 2002
  • Table: Federal Counterterrorism R&D
• New Program for Math & Science Teachers Gets Little Funding
• Report Language on Evolution Attached to Education Bill
• Senate Postpones Action on Cloning Ban

• Senate Confirms Science Advisor
• Tracking Foreign Students
• Tech Talent Bill Introduced
• EPA Science Bill Passes House Committee
• Water Security Research Bill Advances

• Bush to Fund Stem Cell Research, But Strict Limits Imposed
• Federal R&D Rises as the Surplus Falls
  • Table: Congressional Action on R&D in FY 2002 (pdf)
• Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A History

• Defense Asks for Big Overall Increase But Cuts in S&T
  • Table 1: DOD R&D by Category (pdf)
  • Table 2: DOD R&D by Agency (pdf)

• NIH Hearing Presages Stem Cell Debate
• NBAC Proposes Human Subject Reforms
• Bush Economic Advisor Addresses AAAS
• House Considers Bill to Strengthen Science at EPA

• FY 2002 R&D Budget: Agency Highlights
• Cloning Genie Out of the Bottle?
• NASA Struggles with Latest Space Station Overruns
• Bush Goes Ahead on Medical Privacy
• Table: R&D in the FY 2002 Budget by Agency

• Bush Budget Outline Leaves Little Room for Research
• Medical Privacy Debate Escalates
• Senate Bill Would Revamp Approach to Science Education
• R&D Credit May Become Permanent
• AAAS Annual Meeting: Genetic Discrimination; S&T at State

• 107th Congress Inherits Key Issues from 106th
• Boehlert to Chair Science Committee
• 107th Congress -- Changes in Key S&T Committees (pdf)

• FY 2001 R&D: Final Appropriations
  • FY 2001 R&D Table

News Archive, 1996-2000