CRA GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS THE FEDERAL CASE FOR COMPUTING PETER HARSHA CRA LISPI 2017 Me Brian Mosley Policy Analyst NOVEMBER 6-7, 2017 1 2 CRA COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS STRUCTURE OF THIS TALK Stephanie Forrest, University of New Mexico — Chair Greg Hager, Johns Hopkins - Co-Chair Ed Lazowska, Washington — Co-Chair • A bit about CRA and where we fit Sarita Adve (University of Illinois) Dan Reed (University of Iowa) • The problems we face David Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology) Bobby Schnabel (Association of David Ebert (Purdue University) Computing Machinery) • How we deal with them Joel Emer (NVIDIA and MIT) Fred Schneider (Cornell University) Dan Grossman (University of Washington) Marc Snir (University of Illinois, Jeff Hollingsworth (University of Maryland) Urbana-Champaign) • Congressional scrutiny Farnam Jahanian (Carnegie Mellon University) Eugene H. Spafford (Purdue John King (University of Michigan) University) Margaret Martonosi (Princeton University) David Tennenhouse (VMware) Andrew Moore (Carnegie Mellon University) 3 4 Mission: “to unite industry, government + 200+ PhD-granting computing depts. and academia to enhance innovation by + 21 industrial and federal research labs strengthening research and advanced + Six affiliated professional societies education in computing.” 5 6
WE’RE PART OF AN ACTIVE COMPUTING POLICY COMMUNITY GOAL • ACM Ed Policy/USACM • AAAI, USENIX • IEEE-CS/IEEE-USA • NCWIT Remain the “organization of record” for • SIAM • Industry Groups computing research policy issues • CASC 7 8 INNOVATION POLICY AND MAINTAINING THE HEALTH OF THE RESEARCH ECOSYSTEM • Access to Talent • Impediments to Research CHALLENGES • Research Funding and Priorities 9 10 Amistad America Discovery Science Center Miami Project to Cure Paralysis An Achievable Dream Inc Duane Morris Government Affairs Michigan Research Institute Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation Duluth Children's Museum Midpeninsula Regional Open Space Dist Appalachia Service Project ECMC Group Military Child Education Coalition Aquarium of the Pacific Envision Missouri Botanical Garden FY 2017 FEDERAL BUDGET Arison Family Trust # of Lobbyists (FY16) Families of Flight 93 Missouri Public Transit Assn Arizona Science Center Federation of State Humanities Council Monterey Bay Aquarium Asphalt Green Fermi Research Alliance Mote Marine Laboratory Assn for Homeowners Across America Field Museum Muscular Dystrophy Assn Assn of Critical Care Transport Figge Art Museum Museum of Flight Assn of Fundraising Professionals Fight Crime: Invest In Kids Museum of Latin American Art Attic Correctional Services First Candle 11,167 Museum of Science & Industry August Wilson Cntr/African Amer Culture Folger Shakespeare Library Museum of the City of New York Austin Hill Country Conservancy Fort Wayne Allen County Economic My Turn Inc Benetech Initiative Foundation for a Better Oregon Mystic Marine Life Aquarium Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America Fraternal Order of Eagles Mystic Seaport Museum Bipartisan Advocacy Center Friends of Charities Assn National Aquarium in Baltimore Bipartisan Policy Center Friends of the Griffith Observatory National Aviary Bipartisan Policy Ctr Advocacy Network Lobbying Expenditures Friends of the World Food Program National Building Museum Boston Museum of Fine Arts From the Top National Center for State Courts Boston Museum of Science Future of Music Coalition National Center for Victims of Crime Boy Scouts of America GAVI Fund National Coalition for History $4.0 TRILLION Boys & Girls Clubs of America Georgian Bay Forever National Community Action Foundation Boys & Girls Town of Missouri Girl Scouts of the USA National Community Renaissance $3.15 billion Boysville Go for Broke National Education Center National Down Syndrome Society Brooklyn Botanical Garden God's Love We Deliver National Fire Protection Assn California Academy of Sciences Goodwill Industries International National Geographic Society California Center for Land Recycling Goodwill Industries/metro Chicago National Middle School Assn California Science Center Foundation Grammy Foundation National Museum of Industrial History CARE Action Now Great River Economic Development Fdtn National Museum of Women in the Arts Care Coalition Green for All National Safety Council Career Gear Greenway Foundation National Women's History Museum Working “S&T” Carnegie Institute Guardian Angel Holdings National Young Farmers Education Assn Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Habitat for Humanity International Natl Assn Exchange of Industrl Resources Center for Civic Education Harbor Heritage Society Natl Assn of Foster Grandparents Center for Individual Freedom Healey Family Foundation Natl Assn of Local Housing Finance Agenc 366 Center for Inquiry Heartland Family Service Natl Assn/Univ Forest Resource Programs Center for Rural Affairs Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village Natl Cltn for Women with Heart Disease Center for Science in Public Interest Hillside Family of Agencies Natl Commodity Supplemental Food Program Certified Financial Planner Brd of Stds Homeownership Preservation Foundation Natl Conf of Cmsrs on Uniform State Laws Chabot Space & Science Center HONOReform Natl Immigration Forum Action Fund Chadd Inc Houston Advanced Research Center Natl Museum of American Jewish History Chicago Botanic Garden Houston Zoo Natl Underground Railroad Freedom Center 11 Chicago Zoological Society Immunodeficiency Foundation Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose Independent Sector Nehemiah Corp of America Children's Museum of Houston Institute for Student Achievement New Detroit Science Center 11 12
FY 2017 FEDERAL BUDGET FY 2017 FEDERAL BUDGET MANDATORY SPENDING $2.54 TRILLION INTEREST DISCRETIONARY SPENDING DISCRETIONARY SPENDING $306 BILLION $1.21 TRILLION $1.21 TRILLION 13 14 FY 2017 FEDERAL BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS IS A ZERO-SUM GAME Commerce, Justice, Science Bill DISCRETIONARY SPENDING • National Science Foundation $1.21 TRILLION • NIST • NOAA Agriculture Interior and Environment • NASA CJS Labor/HHS/Education Defense Legislative Branch • FBI / Dept. of Justice Energy and Water Military/Veterans • Census Financial Services State/Foreign Ops Homeland Security Transportation/HUD 15 16 NSF, COPS OR SPACESHIPS? LONG-TERM FISCAL CHALLENGES 17 18
Growth in Mandatory Spending vs. Discretionary Discretionary Mandatory Net Interest 7000 5250 3500 1750 0 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Source: Congressional Budget Office projection 19 20 ATTITUDES HAVE CHANGED 21 22 CONGRESS IS MORE POLARIZED THAN EVER CONGRESS IS MORE POLARIZED THAN EVER • Not a single Democratic Senator was more • Of the 98 Democrats who had the most conservative than any GOPer. Not a single middle-of-the-road voting records in the GOP Senator is more liberal than any Dem. last Congress, 55 of their seats are now in GOP hands. • The House is equally polarized, with only five GOPers ranking more liberal than the most conservative Dem, and only four Dems more conservative than the most liberal Republican. From a 2011 National Journal Study of the 2010 election cycle. From a 2011 National Journal Study of the 2010 election cycle. 23 24
25 26 THIS POLARIZATION HAS CHANGED ATTITUDES ABOUT SCIENCE 27 28 • Comity and bipartisanship on the committee • In 2012, Sen. Tom Coburn attacked NSF as probably peaked in about 2007-8 with wasteful for “silly-sounding” research Gathering Storm and the America COMPETES • In 2013, Coburn/McCain and Cantor/L. Smith Act attacked NSF over political science and • Breakdown started in earnest in 2010, during social science funding reauthorization of COMPETES • L. Smith attacks Dept. of Energy over Climate • GOP tried to kill bill to deny Dems a win in an Change and Sustainability research election year • L. Smith amends CJS to target SBE 29 30
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