Tag: Kirsten Gillibrand

Schumer and Gillibrand announce $80 million for LLE in Senate bill
This Senate bill must now be reconciled with the House of Representatives’ bill, which included $68 million for LLE. Both bills reject the Administration’s budget request to cut the Lab’s FY19 funding dramatically and to phase out of all federal support for LLE in three years.
Rob Clark comments on bipartisan ‘Manufacturing Universities’ bill
The Manufacturing Universities Act of 2015 would establish a program within the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) charged with designating 25 schools as “Manufacturing Universities.”