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Strong Support for 14% Increase in FY 2007 DOE Office of Science Budget

MAY 04, 2006

It is expected that a week from now House Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman David Hobson (R-OH) and his colleagues will mark-up their FY 2007 funding bill. Of great importance to the physics community is the extent to which the subcommittee will be able to meet the Bush Administration’s $4.1 billion request for the DOE Office of Science. The Office of Science request has received considerable support in both the House and Senate and from the Energy Sciences Coalition, which advocates for the Office of Science. Constituents of the below Members should consider writing a thank you note to their representative or senator(s) (see http://www.aip.org/gov/commcong.html .)

SENATE:

Seventy senators from 44 states, including 13 appropriators, signed an April 26 letter to Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Ranking Member Harry Reid (D-NV) asking them “to support the President’s request for the Office of Science.” Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) were responsible for this letter, which may be read at http://www.aip.org/fyi/2006/030.html . The following senators signed this letter:

ALASKA: Murkowski, Lisa (R)
ARKANSAS: Lincoln, Blanche (D); Pryor, Mark (D)
CALIFORNIA: Boxer, Barbara (D); Feinstein, Dianne (D)
COLORADO: Salazar, Ken (D)
CONNECTICUT: Dodd, Christopher (D); Lieberman, Joseph (D)
DELAWARE: Biden, Joseph (D); Carper, Thomas (D)
FLORIDA: Martinez, Mel (R); Nelson, Bill (D)
GEORGIA: Chambliss, Saxby (R); Isakson, Johnny (R)
HAWAII: Akaka, Daniel (D); Inouye, Daniel (D)
ILLINOIS: Durbin, Richard (D); Obama, Barack (D)
INDIANA: Bayh, Evan (D); Lugar, Richard (R)
IOWA: Grassley, Charles (R); Harkin, Tom (D)
KANSAS: Roberts, Pat (R)
KENTUCKY: Bunning, Jim (R)
LOUISANA: Landrieu, Mary (D)
MAINE: Snowe, Olympia (R)
MARYLAND: Mikulski, Barbara (D); Sarbanes, Paul (D)
MASSACHUSETTS: Kennedy, Edward (D); Kerry, John (D)
MICHIGAN: Levin, Carl (D); Stabenow, Debbie (D)
MINNESOTA: Coleman, Norm (R); Dayton, Mark (D)
MISSISSIPPI: Lott, Trent (R)
MISSOURI: Talent, Jim (R)
MONTANA: Baucus, Max (D)
NEBRASKA: Hagel, Chuck (R)
NEW JERSEY: Lautenberg, Frank (D); Menendez, Robert (D)
NEW MEXICO: Bingaman, Jeff (D)
NEW YORK: Clinton, Hillary Rodham (D); Schumer, Charles (D)
NORTH CAROLINA: Burr, Richard (R); Dole, Elizabeth (R)
NORTH DAKOTA: Conrad, Kent (D); Dorgan, Byron (D)
OHIO: DeWine, Mike (R); Voinovich, George (R)
OREGON: Smith, Gordon (R); Wyden, Ron (D)
PENNSYLVANIA: Santorum, Rick (R); Specter, Arlen (R)
RHODE ISLAND: Chafee, Lincoln (R); Reed, Jack (D)
SOUTH CAROLINA: Graham, Lindsey (R)
SOUTH DAKOTA: Johnson, Tim (D)
TENNESSEE: Alexander, Lamar (R)
TEXAS: Cornyn, John (R)
UTAH: Hatch, Orrin (R)
VERMONT: Jeffords, James (I); Leahy, Patrick (D)
VIRGINIA: Allen, George (R); Warner, John (R)
WASHINGTON: Cantwell, Maria (D); Murray, Patty (D)
WEST VIRGINIA: Rockefeller, John (D)
WISCONSIN: Kohl, Herbert (D)
WYOMING: Enzi, Michael (R); Thomas, Craig (R)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES:

A similar letter sponsored by Rep. Judy Biggert (R-IL), Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Ellen Tauscher (D-CA), was signed by 139 representatives from 35 states. This April 21 letter to Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman David Hobson (R-OH) and Ranking Member Peter Visclosky (D-IN) states, “we urge you to appropriate at least the $4.1 billion requested by the President for the DOE Office of Science and the physical sciences research it supports.” The text of the entire letter may be read at http://www.aip.org/fyi/2006/033.html The following representatives signed this letter:

ALABAMA: Bonner, Jo (R)
ARIZONA: Grijalva, Raul (D)
ARKANSAS: Ross, Mike (D); Snyder, Vic (D)
CALIFORNIA: Becerra, Xavier (D); Calvert, Ken (R); Capps, Lois (D); Costa, Jim (D); Davis, Susan (D); Eshoo, Anna (D); Filner, Bob (D); Honda, Michael (D); Lantos, Tom (D); Lee, Barbara (D); Lofgren, Zoe (D); Matsui, Doris (D); Millender-McDonald, Juanita (D); Miller, George (D); Napolitano, Grace (D); Sanchez, Linda (D); Schiff, Adam (D); Solis, Hilda (D); Tauscher, Ellen (D); Thompson, Mike (D); Waxman, Henry (D); Woolsey, Lynn (D)
COLORADO; DeGette, Diana (D); Udall, Mark (D)
CONNECTICUT: DeLauro, Rosa (D); Larson, John (D)
GEORGIA: Lewis, John (D)
HAWAII: Abercrombie, Neil (D); Case, Ed (D)
ILLINOIS: Bean, Melissa (D); Biggert, Judy (R); Davis, Danny (D); Gutierrez, Luis (D); Johnson, Timothy (R); Lipinski, Dan (D); Rush, Bobby (D); Schakowsky, Janice (D); Shimkus, John (R)
IOWA: Boswell, Leonard (D); Leach, James (R)
KANSAS: Moore, Dennis (D); Moran, Jerry (R)
KENTUCKY: Chandler, Ben (D)
MAINE: Michaud, Michael (D)
MARYLAND: Cardin, Benjamin (D); Cummings, Elijah (D); Gilchrest, Wayne (R); Ruppersberger, C.A. Dutch (D); Van Hollen, Chris (D); Wynn, Albert (D)
MASSACHUSETTS; Capuano, Michael (D); Frank, Barney (D); Lynch, Stephen (D); McGovern, James (D); Neal, Richard (D); Tierney, John (D)
MICHIGAN: Conyers, John (D); Dingell, John (D); Ehlers, Vernon (R); Kildee, Dale (D);
Levin, Sander (D); Rogers, Michael (R); Schwarz, Joe (R); Stupak, Bart (D)
MINNESOTA: McCollum, Betty (D); Oberstar, James (D)
MISSOURI: Carnahan, Russ (D); Cleaver II, Emanuel (D)
NEBRASKA: Fortenberry, Jeff (R); Terry, Lee (R)
NEW JERSEY: Andrews, Robert (D); Ferguson, Michael (R); Holt, Rush (D); Pallone, Frank (D); Pascrell, Bill (D); Payne, Donald (D); Saxton, Jim (R)
NEW MEXICO: Udall, Tom (D); Wilson, Heather (R)
NEW YORK: Ackerman, Gary (D); Bishop, Tim (D); Boehlert, Sherwood (R); Engel, Eliot (D); Israel, Steve (D); Maloney, Carolyn (D); McCarthy, Carolyn (D); McNulty, Michael (D); Nadler, Jerrold (D); Owens, Major (D); Rangel, Charles (D); Slaughter, Louise McIntosh (D); Towns, Edolphus (D); Velázquez, Nydia (D); Weiner, Anthony (D)
NORTH CAROLINA: Etheridge, Bob (D); Miller, Brad (D); Price, David (D)
NORTH DAKOTA: Pomeroy, Earl (D)
OHIO: Brown, Sherrod (D); Ryan, Tim (D)
OREGON: DeFazio, Peter (D); Hooley, Darlene (D); Wu, David (D)
PENNSYLVANIA: Doyle, Michael (D); English, Philip (R); Murphy, Tim (R)
SOUTH CAROLINA: Inglis, Bob (R)
SOUTH DAKOTA: Herseth, Stephanie (D)
TENNESSEE: Cooper, Jim (D); Davis, Lincoln (D); Ford, Harold Jr. (D); Wamp, Zach (R)
TEXAS: Edwards, Chet (D); Gonzalez, Charles (D); Green, Gene (D); Jackson-Lee, Sheila (D); Johnson, Eddie Bernice (D); McCaul, Michael (R); Paul, Ron (R); Reyes, Silvestre (D); Sessions, Pete (R); Smith, Lamar (R)
VIRGINIA: Boucher, Rick (D); Davis, Jo Ann (R); Davis, Tom (R); Moran, James (D);
VERMONT: Sanders, Bernard (I)
WASHINGTON: Dicks, Norman (D); Hastings, Doc (R); Inslee, Jay (D); McDermott, Jim (D); McMorris, Cathy (R); Smith, Adam (D)
WISCONSIN: Baldwin, Tammy (D); Kind, Ron (D)

ENERGY SCIENCES COALITION:

The Energy Sciences Coalition advocates for the DOE Office of Science. The coalition issued a funding statement declaring that it “strongly and enthusiastically supports the President’s FY 2007 budget request of $4.1 billion for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.” The American Institute of Physics and the American Physical Society were among the 31 organizations endorsing this statement, which may be read in its entirety at http://www.aip.org/gov/esc07.html .

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