CROmnibus FY2015. The Good, the Bad, and the (lots of) Ugly

December 14, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged aphis, army corps of engineers, BLM, clean water act, commerce, congress, conservation programs, cromnibus, environment, eqip, esa, Fisha dn Wildlife Service, forest service, grazing, green climate fund, interior, nasa, national ocean policy, nmfs, NRCS, paoching, pelosi, president obama, riparian buffers, sage grouse, science, senator mikulski, wildlife, wolves | Leave a comment

Welcome to Federal Policy Week, a blog that covers federal policy developments in conservation, natural resources, wildlife, and animal welfare. To subscribe for Federal Policy Week enter your email address under the “Follow” label at the upper left section of the page. You will receive a verification email to confirm your subscription. Thank you! Congress […]

The (Not So) New Spending Bill

January 14, 2014 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged Agriuclture, appropriations, ARPA-E, clean water act, conservation, department of energy, department of interior, DOE, eere, EPA, fish & wildlife, forest service, funding bill, fy2013, fy2014, greenhouse gas emissions, house, interior, nasa, national park service, national science foundation, noaa, NRCS, nsf, science, senate, sequester, sequestration, weather service | Leave a comment

The House and Senate Appropriations Committees produced a bill that covers spending for the rest of FY2014, avoiding another government shutdown. Both the House and Senate Committees released political statements on the bill, as well as a brief and detailed summary. Overall, the bill retains the status quo, but with a bit of additional funds, […]

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

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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 […]

Hurry Up & Wait Congress

July 8, 2013 · by Alison J Fox | in Uncategorized | tagged affirmative action, agriculture, appropriation, chimp, climate, commerce, committee, confirmation, courts, credit, defense, democrat, duncan, education, energy, environment, EPA, federal government programs, federal policy, government, immigration, keystone, nasa, nih, nomination, nuclear, obama, PATENTS, pipeline, political science, politics, renewables, science, sequestration, stem cells, tuition, weather | 2 Comments

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