Legislation introduced by Republicans to reauthorize the America COMPETES Act has won the approval of a subcommittee of the House of Representatives’ Science, Space and Technology (HSST) Committee.
The subcommittee approved the bill on 13 March and it will now be put before the full committee.
The bill, dubbed the Frontiers in Innovation, Research, Science and Technology (FIRST) Act, which would increase the budgets of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology by 1.5 per cent each in fiscal year 2015, compared with the 5 per cent boost that the Democrats had proposed.
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