Washington:
You can file this one under "should have been done about twenty years ago." From the Mail & Guardian: Lawmakers on Tuesday debated legislation to remove former South African president Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress (ANC) from an...
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Posted on May 7, 2008 8:57 AM • 1 Comments •
Last week's report by the UCS indicates that the EPA has become little more than another political tool for the Bush Administration.
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Posted on April 30, 2008 2:58 PM • 3 Comments •
It's an important step forward, but the only true long-term solution is universal health care.
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Posted on April 29, 2008 10:45 AM • 9 Comments •
SEA is sponsoring a workshop that may interest you on May 10th in Washington, DC.
Posted on March 29, 2008 2:52 PM • 1 Comments •
On Monday, Obama was endorsed by Congressman Chet Edwards, whose district includes Texas A&M University, the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, and George W. Bush's Crawford ranch
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Posted on February 22, 2008 5:09 AM • 0 Comments •
Obama wins big in Maryland, Virginia, and DC, but now he has even bigger fish to fry.
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Posted on February 13, 2008 5:07 PM • 0 Comments •
It's time for a few key Republicans to grow a heart and/or some balls and override this veto.
Posted on October 3, 2007 2:13 PM • 5 Comments •
but not with a veto-proof majority.
Posted on September 26, 2007 7:58 AM • 0 Comments •
Tensions mount between Congressman Tom Cole and the Republican leadership.
Posted on September 24, 2007 1:55 PM • 3 Comments •
Following the House, which passed its version in July.
Posted on September 12, 2007 9:01 PM • 0 Comments •
This just in: the CHIP expansion has passed both houses of Congress.
Posted on August 3, 2007 5:00 AM • 1 Comments •
despite Republican opposition to expanded health care access for kids.
Posted on August 2, 2007 4:50 PM • 0 Comments •
Repent! Repent!
Posted on July 21, 2007 8:39 AM • 1 Comments •
The next step is the Senate.
Posted on July 20, 2007 1:58 PM • 0 Comments •
Let's get this bill rolling....
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Posted on July 18, 2007 4:16 PM • 5 Comments •
Tobacco trumps children's health care.
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Posted on July 15, 2007 12:27 PM • 2 Comments •
Over at A Blog Around the Clock, Bora has posted an interview he conducted by email with Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on science and science-related issues. The fact that John Edwards participated is a good indication that the 2008...
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Posted on July 9, 2007 6:48 PM • 0 Comments •
Absurdity. Complete and total absurdity. George Bush, a president who has pardoned fewer people than any president in the past century, today commutes the sentence of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a guilty man who...
Posted on July 2, 2007 7:05 PM • 2 Comments •
President Bush vetoes S. 5 and offers an awful alternative.
Posted on June 22, 2007 6:02 PM • 4 Comments •
On Friday, Randall Tobias--the Bush Administration's chief promoter of foreign abstinence-only sex education programs--resigned from his position as Deputy Secretary of State after getting busted for frequenting DC prostitutes. If your head hasn't already exploded, check out Timothy Noah's humorous...
Posted on April 29, 2007 6:52 PM • 5 Comments •
In a recent interview published in New York Magazine, writer Christopher Hitchens is asked "Has anyone in the Bush administration confided in you about being an atheist?". His answer: Well, I don't talk that much to them--maybe people think I...
Posted on April 29, 2007 1:09 PM • 9 Comments •
Paternalism is the word of the day as the Supreme Court slices away at reproductive freedoms.
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Posted on April 20, 2007 11:55 AM • 2 Comments •
Members of the Bush Administration are forced to defend the Administration's policies of political interference in climate science.
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Posted on March 21, 2007 7:50 PM • 5 Comments •
The House passes the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act 331-94. Should we be surprised that all 94 nays come from the Republican side of the aisle?
Posted on March 15, 2007 9:20 PM • 8 Comments •
This should be interesting....
Posted on March 14, 2007 1:56 PM • 2 Comments •
Romney and Edwards have both shifted heavily to their respective sides, but Edwards gives us fewer reasons to be skeptical than Romney.
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Posted on March 11, 2007 3:36 PM • 4 Comments •
A new Bush Administration directive serves no other purpose than to further institutionalize Administration interference in science.
Posted on January 31, 2007 5:09 AM • 0 Comments •
Yes, that's TOMORROW!!!
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Posted on January 10, 2007 1:16 PM • 0 Comments •
Under the new Democratic Congress, many are hoping to change these outdated and sometimes blatantly racist laws.
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Posted on January 10, 2007 9:47 AM • 0 Comments •
The Democrats are already making big plans to investigate some of the Bush Administration's more outrageous instances of political interference in science.
Posted on November 20, 2006 5:47 PM • 0 Comments •
Although painted as a moderate choice, Boehner's record on key science issues borders on appalling.
Posted on November 17, 2006 4:22 PM • 3 Comments •
As the sun sets on the conservative movement in America, 2006 marks a new beginning for the Democrats, and hopefully for American science.
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Posted on November 10, 2006 7:39 AM • 0 Comments •
It has just been announced that unpopular Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is "stepping down". This is no doubt a positive step for the Bush Administration, the nation, and the world as a whole, but it comes as too little...
Posted on November 8, 2006 2:22 PM • 12 Comments •
There is so much to say about the importance of today's election, but not a great deal that hasn't already been spelled out time and time again. Most importantly, if you haven't already voted, go vote today! Hopefully you'll have...
Posted on November 7, 2006 6:39 AM • 2 Comments •
Is anyone surprised?
Posted on October 31, 2006 10:15 PM • 4 Comments •
Wealthy billionaires, including many Republicans, are picking up the tab for US embryonic stem cell research in the face of restrictive Bush Administration policies. Is this a permanent solution, and does this mean that the Republican Party is now an ally of science? Not likely.
Posted on August 23, 2006 4:07 PM • 1 Comments •
Can one summer intern outshine the entire Department of Homeland Security?
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Posted on August 4, 2006 7:55 AM • 4 Comments •
After it passed in the Senate on Tuesday, Bush proved he was as stubborn as promised and vetoed HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, on Wednesday. This was another step backwards for science in the US and a...
Posted on July 20, 2006 3:33 AM • 1 Comments •
I'm on vacation right now, but I had to come out of hiding for this one. HR 810 passed in the senate today, 63-37. That was enough to meet the 60 vote mark for passage, but it won't be enough...
Posted on July 18, 2006 8:12 PM • 2 Comments •
It has been announced that the highly anticipated debate and vote in the Senate on HR 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act, will take place on July 17th and 18th (next Monday and Tuesday). This is great news, but...
Posted on July 12, 2006 7:10 PM • 0 Comments •
Bush hasn't used his veto yet, but he's promised to employ it on, of all issues, stem cell funding. Not surprisingly, this is indicative of the general Republican Party attitude toward the field.
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Posted on July 12, 2006 8:51 AM • 12 Comments •
On the 29th of June, the Senate finally announced an upcoming vote on HR 810, a bill which would overturn President Bush's current prohibitions on federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The progress of the bill still faces many hurdles, and a recent article in the journal
Science did little to publicize them and in fact contained several problematic and even inaccurate statements.
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Posted on July 8, 2006 8:00 PM • 1 Comments •
Yesterday, the AP released a story describing the general approval within the scientific community of the science behind Al Gore's new documentary
An Inconvenient Truth. Not to be outdone, global warming denialist James Inhofe (R - OK) released his own press release via the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and it's about as crazy as anything else he's had his hands on.
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Posted on June 28, 2006 6:42 PM • 15 Comments •
The Miller Amendment on scientific integrity came up for a vote in the House Science Committee today and was solidly voted down by the Republican majority. In fact, while all Democrats voted for it, all Republicans voted against it.
Posted on June 14, 2006 8:59 PM • 1 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
In May, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) introduced the Federal Research Public Access Act of 2006 to the US Senate, which would require free public access to most government-funded research within six months of the research's publication. This post (from the archives) explores this piece of legislation and the issue of open access in depth.
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Posted on June 12, 2006 7:55 AM • 4 Comments •
In the ongoing struggle against political interference Michael Stebbins of
Sex Drugs & DNA reports that Representative Brad Miller (D-NC) has introduced a
scientific integrity amendment to
HR 5450, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Act, which is currently under consideration in the house.
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Posted on June 11, 2006 1:06 PM • 6 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
I mentioned earlier this week on my old blog that White House Science Adviser John Marburger would be answering questions from the public via Newsweek, and his answers have now been posted. My reactions are mixed, although he was more...
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Posted on June 10, 2006 12:39 PM • 4 Comments •
An Oxford graduate student by day and a scientific activist by night, Nick Anthis isn't letting his Ph.D. research in protein structure get in the way of defending scientific and social progress.
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