Print This Page"Among the most important pieces of the competitiveness agenda this year is the final passage of the Commerce, Justice and State and Energy Appropriations Acts," EIA President Dave McCurdy and TIA President Matt Flanigan stated in the joint letter. That legislation "will mark the first step in increased investment in the physical sciences in key federal research offices, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards & Technology and the Department of Energy's Office of Science. Approving FY2007 research funding requests is a critical step toward meeting the goal of doubling investment in these three offices over the next 10 years," McCurdy and Flanigan added.
EIA and TIA also called on the Senate to pass legislation that would provide for a seamless extension and enhancement of the R&D tax credit, reform the system for highly skilled worker visas and enact key elements of the bipartisan National Competitiveness Investment Act.
Together with the targeted competitiveness funding included in the Commerce, Justice and State and Energy Appropriations Acts, these provisions "are an excellent base upon which to build a strengthened U.S. innovation economy that will continue to create high-skilled, high-paid jobs and foster continued entrepreneurship and groundbreaking scientific discovery," McCurdy and Flanigan pointed out. "...The call for a national innovation vision and strategy is no less urgent today than it was when we began our work four years ago."
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