Setting priorities in science : hearings before the Subcommittee on Science of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, April 7, 28, 1992.

  • United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Science.
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1992
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Credit: Setting priorities in science : hearings before the Subcommittee on Science of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, second session, April 7, 28, 1992. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OPENING STATEMENT OF THE HONORABLE RICK BOUCHER, (D-VA) CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SCIENCE ON PRIORITY SETTING IN SCIENCE April 7, 1992 This morning the Subcommittee on Science begins a series of three hearings on the crucial issue of setting priorities for the funding of science research by the Federal Government. The 1991 Office of Technology Assessment report Federally Funded Research: Decisions for a Decade, points out that there will always be more good research opportunities than the government through its resources can fund. There will always be more requests for federal support for worthwhile projects than the federal research budget can meet. Due to large increases in the ranks of researchers, we confront a situation today in which the total number of faculty with the preparation for and interest in research surpasses the capacity of the system to support them. No longer is there an assurance that a grant proposal for an obviously worthwhile project will receive funding. It must now compete with other admittedly meritorious