Washington Update

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Washington Update

• Sue Fratkin
• Public Policy Consultant. Educause

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Setting the Context

• Bush Administration 1st Budget
• Keeping Election Promises
• Education - Leave No Child Behind
• Tax Cut
• Increase Federal Budget for all discretionary
  programs - 4

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Priorities

• Major Investments in NIH DOD
• Double NIH budget - additional 2.8B - 14
  increase
• Major increase in DOD budget - increase of 14B -
  more pending
• Technology - provide permanent tax credit for RD
• Education - additional 4.6B - 11.5 increase but
  some eliminations

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Non-Priorities

• De-emphasis on science
• No White House Science Advisor
• Excluding NIH, Basic Research declines 1.0
• NSF bare increase of .1
• DOE decrease of 3.3
• Dept of Commerce decrease of 6.1 (NIST,NOAA)
• Basic Applied Research falls 1.5, a loss of
  357M

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Realities

• More money to the States
• Eliminate redundancy, paperwork, regulations
  provide flexibility
• Networking and Information Technology RD budget
  across Agencies to increase 2.1 to 1.969B
  (NSF,DOD, Energy, HHS,NASA, Commerce,EPA)
• Budget Resolution

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Agency Specifics

• NSF
• Advanced Networking Research
• FY02 request 80.2M down 800,000
  infrastructure, 300,000 research
• ITR - in CISE Directorate
• FY02 request 155.48M - flat
• EPSCoR
• FY02 request 100M - flat
• New - Math Science Partnerships - 200M

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• Department of Education
• No Technology Advisor
• All 9 Tech programs collapsed into One
  Performance based Educational Technology State
  Grants program
• Formula driven - targeting rural high-poverty
  K-12 schools
• FY02 request 817.1M down from 872.1M (inc.
  one time 55M) in FY0

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Other Issues

• E-rate - FCC notice of rulemaking
• Published - May 9,2001
• Responses - May 23,2001
• UCITA - on-going battles
• S.718 - Gambling
• Supported by Higher Ed. BUT as amended opposed.
• Broadband Legislation - moving fast in House, not
  Senate

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Conclusions

• Organize to respond to
• Proposed Rulemaking
• Proposed Legislation
• Budget
• FY 2002 - probably down to the wire
• FY 2003 - start thinking now