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...news from Capitol Hill is particularly welcome in Cambridge. Massachusetts, and especially Harvard, received large percentages of the NIH’s allocated funds in earlier years and will likely benefit significantly from this increased funding. The jobs that new grants will create in Massachusetts and at Harvard will also be beneficial to the state’s economy...
...statements on the issue. NIH has said some of the money from the stimulus package could be awarded in only four to six weeks, according to Casey. Harvard has used its clout to push hard for more federal science funding, and Casey said that its representatives have been on Capitol Hill, arguing directly to senators and house members that such a sweeping economic stimulus package would be incomplete without funding for basic research and “intellectual infrastructure.” Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Life Science Collaborative—co-chaired by University President Drew G. Faust...
...Though the early efforts have not proved fruitful, Obama's team members say they will not be dissuaded. "Sometimes it might not all look like it pays off at the beginning," Gibbs said on Thurdsay. "But I think the President believes that time that he spent here and on Capitol Hill talking to members was time well spent." The clock, however, is ticking...
Consider the events of the past two weeks: President Barack Obama, fresh from sky-high approval ratings and an Inauguration that filled the National Mall, met with Republicans in the White House and on Capitol Hill. Disowning any "pride of authorship," he asked both publicly and privately for the two major political parties to work together in Congress on a crucial bill to stimulate the tanking economy. And what happened? While the bill passed by a comfortable margin in the House, it earned not a single vote from a Republican. What's more, 11 Democrats opposed it as well...
...Obama's almost fetishistic pursuit of Republicans - two hours spent with the crabby minority at the Capitol! - is another attempt to deprive his enemies of a Great Satan. The President will make some Republican-oriented concessions, dropping some of the cheesier spending from the stimulus plan. He will get some GOP votes for his stimulus package, but more important, he is establishing himself as a relentlessly reasonable and polite presence in town - and his comity is making it all the more difficult for buffoons like Rush Limbaugh to influence the tone of the Republican opposition...