[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 19, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S2798]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1546. Mr. PAUL submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1260, to establish a new Directorate for Technology 
and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a 
regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on 
economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and 
job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, 
and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as 
follows:

       Strike subsection (a) of section 2527 of title V of 
     division B and insert the following:
       (a) Review Panels.--
       (1) Inclusion on review panels.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, each review panel for a specific Federal 
     research grant shall include--
       (A) at least one individual who is not professionally 
     affiliated with any academic or research institution, has not 
     been professionally affiliated in the 10 years preceding the 
     date of inclusion on the panel, and is an expert in a field 
     unrelated to the field of research under which the grant 
     proposal was submitted; and
       (B) at least one individual who shall serve primarily as a 
     ``taxpayer advocate'' (defined as someone whose main focus is 
     on the value proposed research delivers to the taxpayer).
       (2) Prohibition on receiving recommendations from grant 
     applicants on review panel.--Notwithstanding any other 
     provision of law, each agency that awards a Federal research 
     grant shall not accept recommendations from an applicant for 
     such grant as to who should or should not be on the grant 
     review panel for such applicant.
       (3) Nondisclosure of members of grant review panel.--
     Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each agency that 
     awards a Federal research grant shall not disclose, either 
     publicly or privately, to an applicant for such grant the 
     identity of any member of the grant review panel for such 
     applicant.
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