Date
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Description
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18 Dec. 2006
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Letter to Senators Ted Stevens and Daniel Inouye urging continued authorization and full funding for the
Technology Administration at the Department of Commerce.
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| 11 Dec. 2006 |
Letter to Senate leaders urging support for $10M defense appropriation to complete development and construction of the
Advanced Technology Solar Telescope. |
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9 Nov.
2006 |
STEM Coalition letter to OMB urging Administration support for
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)
K-12 educational programs at the National
Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Education in
preparing the FY 2008 Federal Budget. |
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18 Oct.
2006 |
Innovation & Competitiveness Coalition letters to House and
Senate Appropriations leaders expressing support for proposed
FY 2007 agency R&D appropriations at
levels recommended in the President's American Competitiveness
Initiative |
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18 Oct.
2006 |
Letter to Senate leaders expressing support and appreciation for
the National Competitiveness Investment Act
(S.3936). |
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10 Oct.
2006 |
STEM Coalition Letter to Senate leaders supporting education
provisions in the National Competitiveness
Investment Act (S. 3936). |
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27 Sept.
2006 |
Letter to William Hoagland (Senate Majority Leader's office)
endorsing the National Competitiveness
Investment Act (S. 3936). |
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13
Sept. 2006 |
Letter to House leaders urging prompt consideration and passage
of the Energy Research, Development,
Demonstration, and Commercial Application Act of 2006 (H.R. 5656). |
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13
Sept. 2006 |
Letter to Senate urging support for The
Security and Accountability For Every (SAFE) Port Act (H.R. 4954).
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9 Sept.
2006 |
Coalition letter to Senate supporting
confirmation of Dr. Sharon Hays as the Associate Director for
Science in the Office of Science and Technology Policy |
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7 Aug.
2006 |
ACTION ALERT: Urging Senate participation in the RFID
Caucus |
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3 Aug. 2006 |
Letter sent to U.S. Senate urging Senators to support/vote for the House-passed
Pension Reform Act (H.R. 4). |
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2 Aug. 2006 |
Letter sent to U.S. Senate urging Senators to support the Kennedy-Collins Amendment to the
FY07 Defense Appropriations bill (H.R. 5631). |
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25 July
2006 |
Statement for the record of the House Science Committee hearing on
Science and Technology Advice to Congress. |
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20 July 2006 |
Letter to Representative Nancy Johnson, Chair, Committee on Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, endorsing the
Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2006
(H.R. 4157).”
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| 18 July 2006 |
Letter sent to the
House Committee on Homeland Security endorsing an amendment authorizing a $27 million increase over the President’s budget request for Cyber Security Research and Development. |
| 12 July 2006 |
Letter to U.S. Senate asking Senators to join the U.S. Senate RFID Caucus organized by Senators Byron Dorgan and John Cornyn. |
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11 July
2006 |
Aviation Coalition letter to Senate authorizing and
appropriations committee members asking them to maintain the current
funding level for the NASA Aeronautics
Research Mission Directorate of $912.3 million in the FY 2007
budget. |
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11 July
2006 |
Letter to House leadership expressing support for the
Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Act of 2006
(H.R. 5538), as reported by the House Science Committee as an
amendment to the Energy Research, Development, Demonstration, and
Commercial Application Act of 2006 (H.R.5656) |
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26 June
2006 |
R&D Tax Credit Coalition letter to House and Senate leaders
urging a seamless extension of a strengthened
Research and Development (R&D) tax credit. |
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20 June
2006 |
ASTRA Coalition letter to House leadership endorsing measures
reported by the House Committee on Science (H.R. 5356, H.R. 5357 and
H.R. 5358) as well as the President’s American Competitiveness
Initiative. |
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19 June
2006 |
STEM Education Coalition letter to the
House and Senate leaders urging
prompt action on the Science and Mathematics Education for
Competitiveness Act (H.R. 5358) and the Early Career Research Act (H.R.
5356). |
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16
June 2006 |
Letter to Rep. Joe Barton endorsing The
Motor Vehicle Owners' Right to Repair Act of 2005 (S. 2048). |
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14 June
2006 |
Letter to Rep. Dennis Hastert asking for support in bringing the
Science and Mathematics Education for
Competitiveness Act (H.R. 5358) and the Early Career Research Act (H.R.
5356) to the House floor as expeditiously as possible. |
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5 June
2006 |
Letter to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison expressing support support
for the goals outlined in the Intermodal
Shipping Container Security Act (S.376). |
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5 June
2006 |
STEM Education Coalition letter to the House Science Committee
endorsing the Science and Mathematics
Education for Competitiveness Act (H.R. 5358) |
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26 May
2006 |
Letter to House Science Committee members urging committee
passage of three education and competitiveness
bills: Early Career Research Act (HR 5356); the Research for
Competitiveness Act (HR 5357); and the Science and Mathematics Education
for Competitiveness Act (HR 5358). |
| 26 May 2006 |
Comment concerning
electronically accessible healthcare information submitted in response to NIH Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society Draft Report on Policy Issues Associated with Undertaking a Large U.S. Population Cohort Project on Genes, Environment, and Disease. |
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22 May
2006 |
Letter to U.S. urging support for the Feinstein-Grassley
amendment (S. Amdt. 4075 to S. 2611) to remove a provision authorizing
an automatic 20 percent upward adjustment in the
H-1B admissions ceiling. |
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18 May
2006 |
Letter to selected members of the House and Senate Judiciary
Committees outlining problems with H-1B visa
program administration as background for deliberations on congressional
provisions on S. 2611 proposing expansion of that program. |
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11 May
2006 |
Letter to House Science Chairman Sherwood Boehlert expressing
support for three bills introduced to strengthen U.S.
economic competitiveness by improving math and
science education and research -- the Early Career
Research Act (H.R. 5356), the Research for Competitiveness Act (H.R.
5357), and the Science and Mathematics Education for Competitiveness Act
(H.R. 5358). |
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10 May
2006 |
Letter to Senate Finance Committee supporting the
Protecting America’s Competitive Edge (PACE)
Finance Act (S.2199). |
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5 May 2006 |
Letter with Innovation and Competitiveness Coalition to President
Bush requesting support to secure full funding of the President's
American Competitiveness Initiative by
Congress. |
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5 May 2006 |
ACTION ALERT: Opposing H-1B Provisions in the SKIL Bills
(S. 2611, H.R. 5744) |
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2 May 2006 |
Letter to the House of Representatives expressing support for
passage of The Security and Accountability For
Every (SAFE) Port Act (H.R. 4954). |
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1 May 2006 |
Letter to Rep. Sherwood Boehlert endorsing his April 27, 2006
statement on energy policy calling for
immediate action to reduce U.S. demand for foreign oil and to develop
new energy technologies |
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27 April
2006 |
Letter to Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension conferees
with recommendations to strengthen the private
retirement savings system (HR 2380/S.1783). |
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27 April
2006 |
R&D Tax Credit Coalition letter to House and Senate tax conferees
supporting a seamless extension of the
federal research and experimentation tax credit. |
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13 April 2006
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Letter to all members of the U.S. House of Representatives urging support for full funding for
Budget Function 250 ,which funds many of the programs in the President's American Competitive Initiative.
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6 April 2006
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Letter to Senate Leadership urging them to bring the
Protecting America’s Competitive Edge (PACE) Energy Act (S.2197) up for a vote in the full Senate. |
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6 April
2006 |
Statement
to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and
Claims for the hearing entitled "Should
Congress Raise the H-1B Cap?" |
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5 April
2006 |
Statement
to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property
for a hearing on Patent Quality in the
Information-Based Economy. |
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29 March 2006
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Statement to the Senate Commerce Committee's Technology, Innovation, and Competitiveness Subcommittee hearing on the
Importance of Basic Research to United States Competitiveness.
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28 March
2006 |
Letter to
House Science Chair Sherwood Boehlert supporting H. Rep. 717, which
would direct the Department of Commerce to release its draft report
entitled, "Six-Month Assessment of Workforce
Globalization In Certain Knowledge-Based Industries."
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20 March 2006
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Letter was sent to key Members of Congress and the Administration forwarding the whitepaper,
"Interoperability for the National Health Information Network."
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15 March
2006 |
Statement
to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee for a
hearing on Innovation and Competitiveness
legislation. |
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15 March
2006 |
Letter to the Senate
Judiciary Committee endorsing immigration reform provisions and opposing H-1B cap
expansion provisions in the Comprehensive
Immigration Reform Act. |
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15 March
2006 |
Statement
to the House Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce and Agency
Organization for a hearing on the Federal
Family Health Information Technology Act of 2006 (H.R. 4859) |
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14
March 2006 |
Coalition
letter through Genetic Alliance to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
asking FDA to issue regulations for a genetic
testing specialty under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement
Amendments (CLIA) of 1988. |
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13 March
2006 |
ACTION
ALERT: H-1B Visas/Immigration Reform |
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28 Feb.
2006 |
ACTION
ALERT: Support for PACE Acts |
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27 Feb.
2006 |
ACTION
ALERT: Inventors Rights |
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27 Feb.
2006 |
ACTION
ALERT: Math and Science Incentive Act of 2005 (HR 1457/S.765) |
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24 Feb.
2006 |
Letter to
Sen. Michael B. Enzi, chair of the Senate Committee on Health,
Education, Labor and Pensions urging passage
of S.2198 (PACE-Education). |
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21 Feb.
2006 |
Letter to
Senate and House Budget Committee members urging them to increase budget
allocations for defense S&T funding to 3%
of the FY2007 DoD budget. |
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21 Feb.
2006 |
Letter to
Senators Domenici and Bingaman endorsing the
PACE-Energy Act (S. 2197). |
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14 Feb.
2006 |
Letter to
House and Senate leaders urging them to take advantage of exceptional
bipartisan consensus to pass legislation during this session of Congress
to preserve America's technological leadership role in the global
arena. |
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10 Feb. 2006 |
Letter to Gov.
Pawlenty (Minn.) commenting on legal
immigration proposals for bolstering Minnesota's workforce. |
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8 Feb. 2006 |
Innovate America
Coalition Ad supporting basic research and
math/science education (which appeared in the Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, Roll Call, and The Hill). |
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1 Feb. 2006 |
ACTION ALERT:
Minnesota Members Asked to Respond to Gov. Pawlenty's Statements on H-1B
Visas |
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30 Jan. 2006 |
Coalition Letter
supporting increased federal funding for
public health research |
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24 Jan. 2006 |
Letter to U.S. Senate
co-sponsors communicating IEEE-USA's support for the
Protect America's Competitive Edge (PACE) Acts. |
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23 Jan. 2006 |
ACTION ALERT:
Support H-1B Reforms in the Defend the American Dream Act (H.R. 4378) |
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19 Jan. 2006 |
Comments submitted to
the National Science Foundation 2006-2011
Strategic Plan process. |
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10 Jan. 2006 |
Letter to U.S.
Senators urging co-sponsorship of the National
Innovation Act of 2005 (S.2109). |
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5 Jan. 2006 |
Letter to White House
officials urging action to strengthen K-12 science, technology, engineering and math education. |
