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Thomas D. Pollard 1Departments of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University, PO Box 208103, New Haven, CT 06520-8103, USA 2 Departments of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, PO

July 21, 2012   On July 17, the House Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations Committee (Labor-HHS Committee) released its FY13 spending bill. The draft House bill freezes funding for the

June 14, 2012   On June 14, the Senate Appropriations Committee met to consider the FY13 Labor-Health and Human Services-Education (Labor-HHS) appropriations bill, which funds the NIH. The bill included

The Coalition for the Life Sciences, on behalf of the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus, is pleased to announce Congressman Charlie Dent (R-PA) as the newest co-chair of the Caucus. He

President Obama has remained steadfastly supportive of a strong federally backed scientific research enterprise. Even in austere times President Obama has strived to make scientific research a priority in his

Congress completed, and the President signed into law, the FY12 appropriations bill. The $915 billion spending bill wraps up the remaining nine appropriations measures. The bill provides funding for programs

Science 16 September 2011: Vol. 333 no. 6049 p. 1549 DOI: 10.1126/science.1211494 EDITORIAL: DUELING VISIONS FOR SCIENCE Rush Holt Rush Holt is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey’s 12th Congressional

The Coalition for the Life Sciences (CLS) applauds the decision of Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the

IT’S DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN The Coalition for the Life Sciences (CLS) and the over 60,000 biomedical scientists it represents are concerned about a recent, ideologically motivated, and ill-informed

FY11 Budget Agreement Congress narrowly averted shutting down the government on April 8 by finally agreeing to an FY11 budget.  At the time of the pending shutdown, a gulf of