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If passed, Republican-led efforts to change the US Environmental Protection Agency’s handling of science may never make it past the President’s desk.

February 2015's selection of notable quotes

But at least one science advocate isn’t buying it.

This year in life science was marked by paltry federal funding increases, revelations of sequence contamination, and onerous regulations.

Several US legislators who voted in favor of a bill that cut federal funding for ALS research have taken the chilly plunge for charity.

The omnibus spending bill unveiled by US Congress this week would restore some research budgets cut by sequestration, but critics say it's not enough.

Attracting research funds is never a simple proposition even in the best of years, but in 2013, life scientists dealt with some unique impediments to getting federal grants.

A salmonella outbreak threatens as the FDA, CDC, and USDA limp along, national laboratories are on the brink of closing, and some patients are admitted to the NIH hospital.

The failure of the US Congress to reach consensus on a stopgap spending plan threatens to hobble research at federal agencies and beyond.

Congress subcommittees have proposed increased funding for NIH and NSF.

Following criticism of a National Cancer Institute communications office budget, biologists defend the spending.

The agency told a Congressional committee that it would not forward peer-reviewer comments of social science grants the committee had requested.

Members of Congress have suggested that the President should be able to pick a US Science Laureate.

The agency released details of the sequester’s effects.

In a recent speech, the President defended spending on science and the peer-review process.

Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) is writing legislation to change the rules of the NSF’s grant review process.

Republican representatives question how the NSF reviews grants.

Researchers welcome a new ruling saying that financial holdings will no longer need to be published in an online database.

Republicans seek to evaluate the agency’s spending on communications.

Academic research universities and cancer centers will have a large hunk of their funding cut because of the government sequester.