Members of Congress Submit Funding Requests for Social and Behavioral Science Agencies
Over the past several weeks, Members of Congress have been signing their names to “Dear Colleague” letters, formal requests to the House and Senate appropriations committees for specific funding levels for various federal agencies. COSSA has been tracking letters in support of strong funding for the agencies important to the social and behavioral sciences on our funding updates page. COSSA appreciates the efforts of all of the Members who have signed on to the letters below:
- House & Senate letters on FY 2017 appropriations for HEA-Title IV/Fulbright-Hays International Education and Foreign Language Studies programs
- House letter on FY 2017 appropriations for the Institute of Education Sciences
- House & Senate letter on FY 2017 appropriations for the National Institutes of Health
- House letter on FY 2017 appropriations for the National Science Foundation
- House letter on FY 2017 appropriations for the Bureau of Labor Statistics
- House & Senate letters on FY 2017 appropriations for the Census Bureau
- House & Senate letters on FY 2017 appropriations for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
In addition to the requests for specific appropriations levels, a bipartisan letter in the House reaffirms support for the National Science Foundation’s “current practice of setting national scientific research priorities, investing in all disciplines of science, and using the merit review systems for determining which grant proposals to fund.” A letter in the Senate urges appropriators to include funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct research on the causes and prevention of gun violence.