Please contact your Senators and urge them to cosign both the FY07 Defense Appropriation letter and FY07 Defense Authorization being circulated by Senators Bingaman (D-NM), Santorum (R-PA), Domenici (R-NM), and Mikulski (D-MD). The letters request that Senate Appropriations and SASC leaders include a 10-percent increase for Defense basic research in FY07 and in subsequent years, per the recommendations of "Rising Above the Gathering Storm".
Contact me if you need copies of this letter.
Note that Domenici and Mikluski are themselves appropriators on the subcommittee, so having their signatures on the letter is notable given the reluctance of appropriators to sign such letters.
AAU, NASULGC, and CNSR will be whipping this letter. To help us keep track of this effort, if you have contacted your member, please send me a quick email letting me know that you have done so and who you contacted in the office. Furthermore, if you have any feedback from the office which you can share, this would also be helpful.
One other fact that might be helpful in your efforts is that a similar 10-percent increase for defense basic research is included in S.2198, the PACE-Education Act, sponsored by Senator Domenici, and currently has 57 cosponsors.
Title V, section 502 increases the 6.1 accounts.
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Posted by Jason Van Wey at March 6, 2006 10:59 AM