Consortium of Social Science Associations

COSSA WASHINGTON UPDATE

December 6, 1999

• Congress Completes Budget: President and GOP Claim Victory
• COSSA Holds Annual Meeting
• Job Placements . . . And Annoucements
• COSSA Welcomes Back a Contributor
• Sources of Research Support
• Editor's Note •
• FY 2000 Funding Chart

November 5, 1999

• Budget Game Nearing End
• NIH Receives Big Boost in Vetoed Spending Bill
• House Passes Bill to Allow Federal Agency Data Sharing
• Are We Hurting Our Children
• The Focus is on "COPS"
• National Institute on Aging Seeks Comments on Its 2001-2005 Strategic Plan
• CDC's Prevention Research Initiative Fund Universities
• Sources of Research Support
• Editor's Note

October 25, 1999

• Budget Negotiations Commence; New CR Keeps Government Operating
• President Signs VA, HUD Bill Including NSF Funding
• Agriculture Appropriations Agreement
• House and Senate Approve CJS Funding Bill; Veto By President Probable
• NIH Losing a Champion; Porter Announces Plans to Retire
• Reauthorization of AHCPR Passed By the House
• New Research Misconduct Rules Issued; Comments Sought
• SBE Awards Infrastructure Grants
• NIH Establishes Mind-Body Research Centers
• "From Cells to Selves;" NICHD Seeks Comments on its Framework for Strategic Plan
• NIH Names Director to Head Its Newest Center

October 11, 1999

 Part One

• Appropriations Keep Moving; Continuing Resolution in Place
• Conferees Agree on VA, HUD Bill; NSF Up 7 Percent
• Full Senate and House Committee Approve Labor-HHS-ED Funding Bill

Part Two

• Varmus and Anderson to Leave NIH
• OMB Completes Work on A-110 Data Sharing and FOIA
• Youth Violence Initiative in Senate Funding Bill
• NSF Solicits Information Technology Grants
• NIDA Celebrates 25 Years of Scientific Progress
• CDC Embraces Social and Behavioral Sciences

September 27, 1999

• Senate Subcommittee Approves Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Funding Bill
• OJP Reorganization Plan Subject of Senate Subcommittee Hearing
• Senator Unveils Youth Violence Prevention Initiative
• A Tough Year for the NIH Center for Scientific Review
• NIJ Selects Pilot for "Data-Driven" Crime Initiative
• U.S. Surgeon General Calls for a Balanced Obesity Research Agenda
• Sources of Research Support

September 13, 1999

• Congress Resumes Work: Nsf Cut $10 Million More in House
• Administration Criticizes Congress on Cuts in R&D Funding
• Overhaul of NIH's Peer Review Process; Panel Seeks Comments
• Circular A-110 the Subject of Senate Caucus Meeting
• Surgeon General Issues "Call to Action to Prevent Suicide"
• Groups Stress Importance of Counting All Children in Census
• A Trip to Norway and the "Social Science Dream Machine"
• NICHD's Alexander Receives Louttit Award

August 9, 1999

• Congress Recesses: Confrontation, Capitulation, or Compromise Come September?
• OMB Issues Second Draft of A-110 Data Release Policy: Comments Due September 10
• House Panel Proposes Decreased NSF Funding
• Board Seeks NSF Boost in Spending on Environmental Research
• Senate Committee Considers Census Supplemental Spending; House Passes CJS Funding Bill
• COSSA Briefing: Americans' Trust (Or Lack of) in Government Institutions
• Editor's Note

July 26, 1999

• Representative George Brown, Champion of Science, Dies
• Data Release Issues: Walsh-Price Amendment Loses; Hearing Held
• Census Spending Declared Emergency By House Committee
• Hearing on Information Technology Notes Importance of Socioeconomic Issues
• Justice Programs Reorganization Probed At Hearing
• Congresswoman Previews Labor, HHS, Education Appropriations
• Potential Deadly Consequences: CDC's Inadequate Building and Facilities
• Sources of Research Support

July 12, 1999

• New Surplus Estimates Stir Spending-Tax Cut Battle

• Data Release: New OMB Comment Period Expected; House Panel to Hold Hearing

• What Are They Worried About at the NIH?

• House Passes Juvenile Crime Bill; Conference With Senate in Peril

• NRC Panel Holds Workshop on Racial Disparities in Juvenile Justice System

• Justice Reaffirms: Census Responses to Remain Confidential

• Prevention Research Given High Priority at CDC

• CDC Seeks Investigator-Initiated Proposals

• COSSA Welcomes New Affiliate

June 28, 1999

• NRC Ponders New Survey of Research Doctoral Programs

• Joint Hearing on Federal Role in Education Research

• OAR Releases FY 2000 Plan for HIV-Related Research

• NIMH Crafting Strategic Plan; Seeks Comments

• Shalala on Health and Children at Woodrow Wilson Center

• Sources of Research Support

June 14, 1999

• House Passes Agriculture Spending Bill

• Juvenile Crime Bill Passes Senate; Debate Shifts to House
• Congress Hears about Geographic Information Systems
• NCES Head to Resign Post
• Social Science Research Council Names New President
• Opportunities for Social and Behavioral Scientists/Research at the National Cancer Institute

May 31, 1999

• Appropriations off to Rocky Start: Caps Lead to Cuts in Allocations
• Census Funded for Rest of FY 1999; Monitoring Board Changes
• IOM/NAS Examine Research and Training Issues
• Conference Examines Impact of Information Revolution
• Education Research: Changes Needed
• CNSF Presents Exhibition of NSF Supported Research

May 17, 1999

• SBE Assistant Director Search Accelerates
• Data Release Battle Continues
• Researchers Discuss School Violence at Senate Hearing
• House Subcommittee Holds AHCPR Reauthorization Hearing
• Fatherhood: Topic of House Ways and Means Committee Hearing
• Socioeconomic Status and Health Disparities Conference
• Rockefeller Institute of Government Rejoins COSSA

May 3, 1999

• House Subcommittee Shows Interest in NSF Programs
• NSF Director Addresses Press Club; Supports Sampling in Census
• COSSA Advocates Large Increase for NSF at House Hearing
• NIH Public Advisors Meet for First Time
• COSSA Briefing Considers Medical Treatment/Advice Adherence: A Multi-Dimensional Problem

April 19, 1999

• Congress Adopts Budget Resolution: Limits on Spending Remain
• House Approves Contentious Census Bill; Now to Senate
• Senate Committee Examines Education Research
• Diabetes Research Identifies Importance of Behavioral Factors
• Maternal and Child Health Research Program Evaluated
• AAAS Holds Annual S&T Forum; Gibbons Notes Challenges Facing Science Community
• BLS Releases Data From National Longitudinal Survey
• Sources of Research Support

April 5, 1999

• Prewitt Appears Before House Appropriators for First Time
• Senate VA, HUD Appropriations Subcommittee Hears NSF and OSTP Officials
• OJP Head Appears Before Senate Judiciary Committee; Talks About OJP Reorganization
• Is Welfare Reform Working?: COSSA Briefing Considers 1996 Welfare Act
• Prewitt Appears Before House Appropriators for First Time (cont.)
• Education Secretary Intends to Establish Commission on Math and Science Teaching
• Decreasing the Gap: NIEHS Developing a Research Agenda on Socioeconomic Status

March 22, 1999

• NIH Officials Appear Before Congressional Appropriators
• New Faces at NSF Appropriation Hearing In House
• House Appropriators Wary of Emphasis on Competitive Agricultural Research
• Government Reform Committee Approves Seven Census Bills; Partisan Feuding Continues
• Budget Request “Zeroes Out” One Source of NIJ Funds; House CJS Appropriations Chair Not Pleased
• Sources of Research Support

March 8, 1999

This issue of COSSA Washington Update contains a summary and analysis of the proposed Fiscal Year 2000 budgets for over 40 agencies that support social and behavioral science research.

February 8, 1999

• FY 2000 Budget Released: Debate over Surplus Begins
• OMB Issues Draft Rules for Data Release; Seeks Comments
• NSF Seeks New Head of SBE Directorate
• High Court Rules on Census; Congress In-Fighting Heats up
• NIH Addresses Consumer Presentation on Peer Review Panels
• House Science Committee Organizes; Smith of Michigan to Lead Basic Research Panel
• FIPSE Will Run Competition after Congress

January 25, 1999

• Laden Down With Pork; FIPSE Cancels Competitive Grants
• House Funding Subcommittees’ Rosters Complete
• The Unequal Burden of Cancer
• NSF Announces Childhood to Workforce Initiative
• OBSSR Progresses Toward Creation of Mind/body Centers
• NIH Seeks Researchers for February Workshop
• NIDA Looking to Increase Cognitive-Based Research
• House Appropriations Subcommittee Assignments

January 11, 1999

• 106^th Congress Opens for Business: Impeachment Dominates Early Agenda
• Stevenson Replaces Auerbach at White House Science Office
• NSF Announces Two Research Grant Opportunities
• Drug Abuse and Addiction Research on Women “Sorely Neglected”
• National Institute of Justice News
• New Book Examines Threats to Social Science Research
• Silver Named AAAS Fellow; Elected to APSA Council
• Carol Geary Schneider, AAC&U President, Joins COSSA Board of Directors
• LIS Summer 1999 Workshop
• Editor’s Note
• Sources of Research Support

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