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Hearing on Research Infrastructure

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The US House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology will host a hearing titled “Building Back the U.S. Research Enterprise: COVID Impacts and Recovery”.

Date: Thursday, February 25, 2021
Time: 10:00 a.m. EST (7:00 a.m. PST)
Place: Online via videoconferencing. Link will be posted here.
Witnesses:
• Dr. Sudip Parikh, Chief Executive Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Dr. Christopher Keane, Vice President for Research, Washington State University
• Dr. Felice J. Levine, Executive Director, American Educational Research Association
• Mr. Thomas Quaadman, Executive Vice President, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

House Reconciliation Package Now Headed to Budget Committee

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With the Reform and Oversight Committee wrapping up its markup late Friday, the nine committees scheduled to act on pieces of the larger budget reconciliation measure concluded their work, sending the individual components to the Budget Committee for the next step in the process, which is to craft a much more comprehensive $1.9-trillion package.

The following committees marked up measures under jurisdiction:  Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Financial Services, Oversight and Reform, Small Business, Transportation and Infrastructure, Veterans’ Affairs, and Ways and Means.  Among the committees which received reconciliation instructions but did not hold a markup was the House Science Committee.

House Committees March Through Reconciliation Process

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The vast majority of House committees with reconciliation instructions continue to march towards completing that process.

The following committees have completed their bills, as of Friday morning: Education and Labor, Ways and Means, Financial Services, Transportation and Infrastructure, Small Business, Agriculture, and Veterans Affairs.

The Energy and Commerce Committee is scheduled to reconvene today to complete consideration of its bill while the Oversight Committee is also scheduled to meet today.

The Science, Foreign Affairs, and Natural Resources Committees are not scheduled to hold markups for their instructions.

Our colleagues at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities have produced an initial analysis of the provisions of interest to the public research university community, which is available here.

Nearly $40 Billion for Higher Education Approved by House Committee

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The House Education and Labor Committee approved this morning its portion of the larger COVID relief package by a vote of 27 to 21, making it the first committee of many to move on the budget reconciliation process.  Among other provisions, the bill (a section-by-section summary is available here) includes $39.6 billion for higher education.  A number of other House committees are scheduled to markup their bills today:  Ways and Means, Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Agriculture (the text of the bill it is marking up is available here).