Dear American Chemical Society Member,
Recently the American Chemical Society urged you to write
letters, asking our national leaders to support the
inclusion of science funding in the FY2008 supplemental
spending bill. If you did this, thank you for your help. More
phone calls, however, are needed, especially to your
senators.
The debate on the supplemental spending bill is now an
uphill battle for the scientific community, with the House
of Representatives rejecting emergency spending on science
and research. The U.S. Senate however has included proposed
funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Department
of Energy Office of Science and the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) in it’s version of the supplemental bill.
Without this additional money approximately 1,000 highly
rated grants from the NSF will not be funded and 600
scientists at DOE facilities could lose their jobs.
We urge you to join scientists from across the country by
clicking
here and calling your senators at the numbers listed.
Please urge them to support the inclusion of NSF, NIH, and
DOE funding in the final emergency spending bill.
Thank you for your help.
Brad Smith
Manager, act4chemistry.org
