[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 243 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 243

Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should 
increase its support for basic and applied scientific research, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 1998

  Mr. Rogan submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
                  referred to the Committee on Science

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government should 
increase its support for basic and applied scientific research, and for 
                            other purposes.

Whereas the United States consistently has been the world's strongest supporter 
        of basic and applied scientific research;
Whereas the Congress, with the support of the American people, has shown the 
        wisdom and foresight to generously support basic and applied scientific 
        research;
Whereas scientific discoveries resulting from basic and applied scientific 
        research have had an enormous impact on the Nation's economy, the 
        development of technology, the creation of jobs and new industries, and 
        the strength of the Nation's research and educational institutions;
Whereas Federal financial support for basic and applied scientific research has 
        contributed significantly to making the United States the superpower 
        that it is today;
Whereas since 1988 Federal financial support for basic and applied scientific 
        research has dropped in constant dollars by more than 2 percent 
        annually;
Whereas the reduction in Federal financial support for basic and applied 
        scientific research threatens the Nation's supremacy in science and 
        technology, its wealth-producing potential, its ability to educate 
        researchers and scientists, its national laboratories and research 
        institutions, and its global competitiveness; and
Whereas to ensure its leadership role in the world in the next millennium the 
        United States must not replace its scientific curiosity with idleness, 
        or abdicate its role as a discoverer and explorer of the unknown, or 
        shift its attention from the wonderment of space to the dust of decline: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That it is the sense of the Congress that the Federal Government 
should--
            (1) increase its financial support for basic and applied 
        scientific research in the United States;
            (2) encourage the maintenance and growth of basic and 
        applied scientific research within the corporate and industrial 
        sectors of the economy of the United States; and
            (3) analyze, and where necessary, adjust the Federal 
        incentives with respect to basic and applied scientific 
        research to ensure the global competitiveness of the United 
        States.
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