Congress should fund professional development for grad students and postdocs to enhance our nation’s global competitiveness, and university administrators should advocate for such legislative appropriations, writes Adriana Bankston. Scientists bring important expertise and contributions to government decision-making by engaging with legislative staff and making their voices heard in Congress in relation to important legislation. That has especially been the case in the CHIPS and Science Act, which National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan has called the most important U.S. science and engineering legislation in a generation.
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi delivered remarks at a press event with Committee Chairs ahead of the House passage of the America COMPETES Act of 2022. Below are the Speaker’s remarks: Speaker Pelosi. Good morning, everyone. And, it is a very good morning. Not only because of the wonderful legislation, the masterful legislation, that is on the Floor as we speak here