- Election Information;
- Rice University will expand its free tuition program to students whose families earn up to $200K per year;
- City of Katy enters stage 1 of drought contingency plan;
- Exclusive: U.S. attorney objects to disclosure of record detailing fatal ICE shooting;
- ICE agent released after being held in Texas jail for extradition to Minnesota as federal deadline expires;
- Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants — and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation;
- Fired Stars and Stripes journalists sue Hegseth and Pentagon spokesperson;
- Solar generates more energy than coal in US for 1st time: Report;
- TotalEnergies to appeal French court decision ordering it to adapt its business to climate change;
- TotalEnergies Backs Two Major Oil Pipelines to Bypass Hormuz;
- Europe MP Valerie Hayer Slams Trump’s ‘Authoritarian Regime’, Says ‘Trumpism Madness’ Threat To Europeans;
- “I Don’t Want To Be Like The US” (2026-JAN-21);
- Syria and Israel Hold U.S.-Mediated Talks to Try to Ease Tensions;
Tag Archives: federal government
Sign this [new] petition for The White House to increase the NIH budget for 2013
[UPDATE (April 2, 2012): We now need 9,333 more signatures to hit 25,000 by April 17. If you have not yet signed the petition, please do so, and ask your friends and co-workers to log into the site and sign.]
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A new petition has been initiated (the first one failed by just 88 signatures!), and needs 25,000 signatures by April 17, 2012. As of this date (March 25), it is more than halfway there at 12,574.
The NEW petition can be found here: https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/#!/petition/increase-nih-funding-33-billion-proposed-flat-307-billion-dollars-will-hurt-econmy-and-medical/FNr0kRbj
The original petition needed 25,000 signatures by March 18th. It fell short by just 88 signatures!
The new announcement is below. The original petition announcement, with arguments for its support, is below that. ~ Mike
Support Improved Human Health AND Boosting Our Economy! Sign this petition to support increased funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Update, March 25, 2012: The petition announced below has expired. Outdated links have been removed. Please see the post for the new petition at http://wp.me/p12dO4-1eX
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There’s a lot of interesting and important science waiting to be done in this country. Doing it, however, is becoming financially impossible.
Government support for research which has no immediate payoff is essential, or basic research often doesn’t get done. Yet over a decade or more, federal funding of research in ‘real’ dollars has been almost continually ‘flat’ or cut. Continue reading
The Speech Obama SHOULD Give: Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Speech at Madison Square Garden (October 31, 1936)
Last night (September 1, 2011), Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word ran part of a speech given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt just before the 1936 election. The most striking thing about his speech was the political fearlessness of it. One line in particular could be lifted by President Obama and cited in his speech to Congress: “Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred.”
If only he would…
Below is the link to the page with the transcript, and the introduction written there.
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