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Special Policy News #6: The Transition

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Todd Young’s (R-IN) Endless Frontiers Act from the last Congress, Biden endorses investing $50 billion to create a new technology directorate in the National Science Foundation to fund research on topics like semiconductors and advanced computing, advanced communications technology, advanced energy technologies and biotechnology.

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Policy News: July 27, 2021

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billion for investments in advanced manufacturing, advanced wireless, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, clean energy technology, microelectronics and semiconductors, quantum information science and the U.S. A similar bill passed the House in January 2020. In addition, the House Appropriations Committee allocates up to $3.1

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ESA Policy News: February 20, 2023

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Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) will be the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Research and Biotechnology. 1002 ) preventing any position in the federal competitive service, created after September 30, 2020, from being reclassified outside of merit system principles without the express consent of Congress.

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ESA Policy News: January 23, 2023

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Since March 2020 and former President Trump’s sustained references to the coronavirus as the ‘China virus,’ over 11,500 hate crimes and incidents against Asian Americans have been reported. “As Interior: The Bureau of Land Management is revising sage grouse conservation plans. The Trump administration amended the plans in 2019.

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