Fully Fund the NSF, and Oppose Restrictions on SBE Science Research Funding
As part of the larger effort to reauthorize the America COMPTETES Act, fully fund the National Science Foundation and oppose any effort to place new restrictions on SBE science research funding.
As part of the larger effort to reauthorize the America COMPTETES Act, the House Science, Space and Technology Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee may soon mark up their versions of the legislation to re-authorize the National Science Foundation (NSF).
I urge you to fully fund the NSF and the Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Science Directorate, and oppose any effort to place new restrictions on SBE science research funding. Previous research funded by the SBE Directorate includes the works of Nobel Prize winning researchers (the late Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University as well as Daniel Kahneman of Princeton) that examines individual and group decision making. Other work includes research on Cybersecurity, Disasters, Geographic Information Systems, and Youth Violence.
It is important that the United States sees funding across all disciplines of basic scientific research supported by the NSF as a top national priority. Support for this goal should not include offsets that will force significant, detrimental tradeoffs between one field of research and another. We need to preserve our system of support for basic research based on scientific merit and peer review, without unneeded restriction and regulation.
I urge you to fully fund the NSF and the Social, Behavioral and Economic (SBE) Science Directorate, and oppose any effort to place new restrictions on SBE science research funding. Previous research funded by the SBE Directorate includes the works of Nobel Prize winning researchers (the late Elinor Ostrom of Indiana University as well as Daniel Kahneman of Princeton) that examines individual and group decision making. Other work includes research on Cybersecurity, Disasters, Geographic Information Systems, and Youth Violence.
It is important that the United States sees funding across all disciplines of basic scientific research supported by the NSF as a top national priority. Support for this goal should not include offsets that will force significant, detrimental tradeoffs between one field of research and another. We need to preserve our system of support for basic research based on scientific merit and peer review, without unneeded restriction and regulation.
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