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Volume 8, Issue4July/August 1995

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    The recent actions by the House Science Committee, bringing into question the value of the Social Behavioral and Economic Sciences at the National Science Foundation, should serve to remind all of us about the continuing need to communicate and connect with the public and opinion leaders about the value of investing in basic research. In its markup of the NSF authorizing legislation on June 28, the Committee told NSF to reduce the number of directorates by one, and included report language that made the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences the target for elimination. The Committee's rationale seems to be that because this is the newest and smallest directorate, it must therefore represent the agency's lowest priority. This bill will be considered by the full House of Representatives.

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