Science+Congress:
Wasn't it just yesterday that I wrote this post? Via Mr. Fleck, hot off the presses, a release from Senator Boxer's office: Boxer, Bingaman and Lieberman Ask President to Commit to Working with Congress to Fight Global Warming Wednesday, November...
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Posted on November 15, 2006 5:05 PM • 4 Comments
For science policy, the biggest issue that Congress will deal with for the next year to year and a half is climate change. There will be other issues (stem cells and the ESA might come up), but climate change is...
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Posted on November 14, 2006 11:00 AM • 8 Comments
In the past couple of days I mentioned Rep. Richard Pombo a couple of times as my race to watch (because my local House seat is safely held by the great Mark Udall). Pombo held the 11th California District seat...
Posted on November 8, 2006 8:12 AM • 3 Comments
Last week's AskAScienceBooger question was "What's the most important local political race to you this year (as a citizen, as a scientist)?..." My answer is Richard Pombo's race in the 11th District in California. Pombo is currently Chair of the...
Posted on November 7, 2006 2:35 PM • 0 Comments
I can hear your little minds whirling. "If the Democrats take back Congress, why, why, why that means that science will be respected again!" Right. Here are some things to look for in the 110th Session. One big "problem" (if...
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Posted on November 6, 2006 12:58 PM • 7 Comments
I've written a bunch on FEMA and have been following the post-Katrina ping pong ball as it bounces all over our fair capitol city. I haven't exactly been quiet about my opinion that FEMA needs to come out of DHS...
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Posted on September 18, 2006 4:09 PM • 2 Comments
That there is something of a "culture war" going on between the Bush Administration and the American science community is fairly clear (although the invective is pretty one-sided, making me wonder if the Admin thinks it is in a war...
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Posted on September 14, 2006 12:48 AM • 16 Comments
I have a long post up on Prometheus here about today's Environment and Public Works Committee markup on S.1848, the Cleanup of Inactive and Abandoned Mines Act, sponsored by Senators Salazar and Allard....
Posted on September 13, 2006 5:09 PM • 0 Comments
Word on the street is that Senator Domenici is moving toward a real solution on nuclear waste storage. CQ.com just told me that Domenici is putting a provision in the 2007 Energy-Water Appropriations bill (hey kids, it's approps markup season!!...
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Posted on June 27, 2006 3:46 PM • 2 Comments
I got two interesting emails from a high-traffic list I'm on. I'm not going to identify the list or the email authors, but the list includes lots of beltway and former beltway types that also have connections to science. First,...
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Posted on May 19, 2006 1:34 PM • 6 Comments
A month ago I mentioned the Domenici-Bingaman white paper on the regulation of greenhouse gasses. Then I promptly set the paper aside and eventually missed the deadline for comment. Today the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold a...
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Posted on April 4, 2006 8:00 AM • 1 Comments
Senator Nelson's big beef appears to be over offshore oil drilling and his perception that Kempthorne won't have any qualms about drilling crude off Florida's white, sandy swaths of luxury. Of course, Senator Domenici (R-NM), with no beaches to worry about back home but a role to play as Chair of the Energy Committee, plans to try every trick in his big black bag to get Kempthorne through and start drilling ASAP.
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Posted on March 22, 2006 3:01 PM • 0 Comments
Pay now or pay later? Late last month the Multihazard Mitigation Council of the National Institute of Building Sciences finished a report on hazard mitigation. The report, funded by FEMA at the behest of the 106th Congress, is here. The...
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Posted on January 13, 2006 2:59 PM • 2 Comments
Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
