Senate Committees – Republican Members & Chairman

January 10, 2015 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agricutlure, appropriations, budget, chairman, chuck grassley, commerce science transportation, committee chairmen, energy and natural resources, environment and public works, james inhofe, john johnthune, john thune, judiciary, mike enzi, murkowski, pat roberts, roberts, senate committees, thad cochran, us senate | Leave a comment

The Republicans in the Senate released Committee assignments for the 114th Congress. Below are the assignments for key Committees. If I missed a Committee, you can find its membership list on the full list. The Chairman is listed first and has an asterisk by his/her name. Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry *Pat Roberts, Kansas Thad Cochran, […]

SENATE SHUFFLE: IMPACT ON ENERGY, CLIMATE, FORESTS & MORE

December 30, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged "coal ash", alaska, appropriations, Arctic, bald eagles, baucus, BLM, boxer, budget, climate, climate action plan, confirmation, deep horizon, department of interior, energy, EPA, epw, finance committee, forest, gao, greater sage grouse, house energy committee, hydro, interior, International Students, izembek, keystone, landrieu, national forest, natural gas, nevada, nuclear, oil spill, permits, renewable fuels, renewables, royalties, sage grouse, secretary jewell, senate, senate energy committee, senate environment, tax, turbine, usgs, WIND, wind power, wyden | Leave a comment

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DEAL OR NO DEAL – WILL THE BUDGET CONFERENCE SUCCEED (AND MUCH MORE)

November 17, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged administration, affirmative action, agencies, agriculture, appropriations, budget, carbon capture, cellulosic ethanol, chimps, climate, coal, commerce, congress, education, energy, environment, EPA, ethanol, Fair Use, federal policy, for-profits, FTC, gainful employment, Grants, hearings, Higher ed, immigration, interior, International Students, jewell, military, mining, natural gas, nih, nominations, obama, oil, Online Ed, politics, post-9/11, renewables, research, science, sequester, STEM, textbooks, transmissions, tuition, us energy production, water, wrda, wrds | Leave a comment

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AND IT GOES ON AND ON, WATCHING THE (MESSY) RIVER RUN

November 6, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged "America Competes", "chairman rodgers", "Chairman rogers", "coal ash", "College Value", "competency based", "federal policy week", "FIRST ACT", "Fischer v. University", "fugitive methane", "house schedule", "indirect costs", "patent troll", "The Frontier in Innovative Research, "The Sun Also Rises", affirmative action, agriculture, and Technology", antiquities act, Aviation, Beloved, budget, Chairman Goodlatte, chamber of commerce, climate, coal, college ratings, committee, common core, COMPETES, courts, defense, democrat, denham, diesel, education, Einstein, energy, energy efficiency, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, fracking, Goodlatte, GOP, higher education act, humanities, immigration, innovation, interior, James Hansen, jewell, mikulski, mooc, nasa, NextGen, nominations, nuclear, nuclear power, obama, PATENTS, renewables, RFS, Rubio, science, scientific community, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hatch, sequestration, technology, Twilight, university, yucca | 2 Comments

WATER, PATENTS, BUDGETS AND EDUCATION, OH MY

October 29, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, brain, budget, children, committee, darpa, defense, democrat, drilling, education, energy, EPA, FEDERAL AGENCIES, federal government programs, federal policy, genetics, government, immigration, judy blume, language gap, maya, nih, politics, polls, preschool, research, science, sequestration, spanking, tuition | 1 Comment

THE CONFERENCE BEGINS: REQUESTS MOUNT

October 21, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, budget, chimp, climate, committee, courts, credit, degree, democrat, economic research, education, energy, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, Florida, ged, high school, immigration, mooc, nclb, nuclear, obama, politics, Poverty, renewables, republican, research, science, shutdown, southern, sports, Texas, tuition, tutor | 1 Comment

THE BIG DEAL

October 18, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged budget, committee, continuing resolution, debt limit, defense, democrat, education, federal policy, federal worker, funding, mcconnell, politics, Reaction Fee, republican, satellites, teach for america, weather, workers | Leave a comment

SPECIAL POST Congress finally reached a deal to re-open the government and raise the debt ceiling. Unfortunately, the legislation (HR 2775) only funds the government until January 15, 2014 and only extends the US borrowing authority until February 7, 2014. In the meantime, the House and Senate will hold a budget conference, hoping to hash […]

TOENAIL FUNGUS, HEMORRHOIDS, AND DOG POOP

October 13, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged agriculture, antarctic, budget, climate, committee, courts, debt, defense, democrat, dog poop, education, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, fungus, government, hemarrhoid, james webb, jewell, keystone, laureate, mooc, nasa, national park, nih, nist, noaa, NRC, nsf, nuclear, oil, polls, renewables, research, satellite, science, sequestration, shutdown, sonar, space, toenail, weather, whales | 2 Comments

MOVING AHEAD WHILE SHUTDOWN

October 7, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged affirmative action, agriculture, american dream, arsenic, bank, budget, campaign, climate, college, commercial space, committee, COMPETES, courts, democrat, duncan, education, emissions, energy, environment, EPA, fda, federal government programs, federal policy, foreign language, gender, government, hanford, immigration, iss, keystone, liberal arts, moniz, nasa, nsf, nuclear, obama, politics, polls, R&D, renewables, republican, science, sequestration, shutdown, smr, space, STEM, supreme court, tuition | 1 Comment

THE SHUTDOWN: COSTS AND IMPACT

October 3, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged budget, commerce, DOE, education, EPA, federal government, higher education, higher education, house, house republicans, interior, monuments, museums, nasa, nih, nsf, obama, omb, park, public opinion, reid, repurblicans, scientific community, senate, sequester, shutdown, shutdown plan, student loans, usda | 2 Comments

Below is a brief posting covering the current status of the shutdown, including information on the potential impacts the government shutdown may have on you personally and agencies that impact you or your work. Please click on the links for more detailed information. As the shutdown of the federal government unexpectedly continues, the costs and […]

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