The US Senate is working on the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment bill, and as of today, it appears that it will be approved in the Senate, perhaps on Tuesday.However, Shawn Otto has been in contact with citizens that are members of the ScienceDebate2008....

Alright. If you were a good student, you read in C&E News that the stimulus package had a huge windfall for science. This was good - America needs to reinvest in science something fierce after barely keeping funding at inflationary levels. Now, Senator...

Under attack from the republicans there is now word that substantial funds for education will be slashed from the stimulus bill. Unfortunately there is also word of slashing funds for science and this is another huge error.Efforts were underway this morning...

I came across the following news item today which might be of interest to many of the readers of this blog: as part of a bipartisan effort (headed by Susan Collins (R-ME) and Ben Nelson (D-NE)) to reduce the size of the U.S. federal government stimulus package...

Tonight, an AP article reports that senate “moderates” are working on a compromise stimulus package that cuts $88B from the nominal senate version. Doesn’t sound so bad, until you read the fine print. Here’s what they plan on cutting:Nearly...

I just don't believe it. The "moderate" senators trying to whittle down the stimulus package to avoid a filibuster in the Senate really are suggesting that NSF funding be cut, presumably b/c of the silly porn-viewing incident....