HIGHLIGHTS:
Computing Research Advocacy Network

Information Technology Initiative

Networking and Information Technology
Research and Development Act

Congressional Testimony

Before House Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies in support of FY 1999 NSF budget requests - April 21, 1998
Statement of Peter A. Freeman, CRA board member, Chair of CRA government affairs committee, and Dean of the College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology.

Before House Appropriations Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies in support of FY 1997 NSF and CISE budget requests - May 10, 1996
Statement of Fred W. Weingarten, Director of Government Affairs for Computing Research Association.

Before House Science Subcommittee on Basic Research on NSF Advanced Computational Infrastructure - March 19, 1996
Statement of Mary Vernon, CRA board member and Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Before House Science Subcommittee on Basic Research in support of the High Performance Computing and Communications Program - October 31, 1995
Statement of Ed Lazowska, CRA board member, Chair of CRA government affairs committee, and Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Oral testimony also available.

Before U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on VA, HUD, and Independent Agencies Hearing on NSF Appropriations - April 5, 1995
Statement of Ed Lazowska, CRA board member, Chair of CRA government affairs committee, and Chair of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.

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Policy Issues

Next Generation Internet

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Advocacy Alerts

ALERT re: IT Research Funding at NSF, September 27, 1999

ALERT re: Congressional Appropriations for IT Research Funding , September 8, 1999

ALERT re: Meetings With Legislators during August Recess, August 1999

ALERT re: Response to Congressional Action on the IT Initiative, August 1999

ALERT re: Congressional Support for the Information Technology Initiative, May 1999

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Budget Information

President's Proposed 1996 Federal Budget
Selected articles and budget tables from the March 1995 issue of Computing Research News.

Congressional Budget Resolutions (FY 1996-2002)

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Reports

"Networked Computing for the 21st Century: Supplement to the President's FY '99 Budget," August 1998. Report in Acrobat (.pdf).

"The Emerging Digital Economy," U.S. Department of Commerce, April 1998

PCAST Report To The President On "Federal Energy Research And Development For The Challenges Of The Twenty-First Century," November 1997

"Critical Foundations: Protecting America's Infrastructures," President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, October 1997

PCAST Report to the President on the "Use of Technology to Strengthen K-12 Education in the United States," March 1997

Report - R&D for the NII: Technical Challenges
Report of a project sponsored by CRA with several other associations to develop a research agenda for the NII.

Culture, Society and Advanced Information Technology
A report sponsored by CRA and the American Anthropological Association.

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Essays, Analyses, Commentaries, etc.

Commentary on the State of the Union by Fred W. Weingarten (January 1998)

The New Congress (105th): How will it shape up on Science Policy? Analysis of impact on House Committee on Science by Fred W. Weingarten

CRA Bulletin

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Statements and Speeches

Remarks by President Clinton and Vice President Gore, November 30, 1998.

NSF priorities for the next four years. NSF Deputy Director, Joe Bordogna, addresses the question in a speech to the Commission on Professionals in Science and Engineering.

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Legislation

S. 124 to "Double" Research Spending : Senator Phil Gramm (R-Texas), Senator Connie Mack (R-Florida), and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). Also available in Acrobat (.pdf).

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Editorial Note: CRA encourages all members to send us testimony, reports, and other policy publications that may be of interest to the computing research community. For consideration, please send material to Lisa Thompson, Director of Government Affairs thompson@cra.org.