Continuing Resolution for FY 2025. FY 2025 and FY 2026 appropriations funding for federally funded research and development at DOD, DOE, NSF, NASA, NOAA, NEH, NEA, Department of Education, HHS, NIH and other federal research funding. Advocating for federal funding of student aid including Pell, SEOG and Work-Study funding
FY2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (through 9/30/2025) H.R. 1968, support student aid in the Pell, SEOG and Work-Study programs as well as education related research and scholarship supported by the Department of Education FIPSE and FIE research programs. FY 2026 Appropriations measures (No bill number yet) for federal financial aid and research funding within the Department of Education.
FY2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (through 9/30/2025) H.R. 1968 for defense research and development funding. FY 2026 appropriations for Defense (no bill number yet) including funding for 6.1 and 6.2 funding at the Army, Navy, AirForce and defense-wide research.
No specific bills yet introduced during the 119th Congress. Support robust patent protections for university-based discoveries and licensing agreements.
FY2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (through 9/30/2025) H.R. 1968, Energy-Water FY 2025 appropriations (H.R. 8997 S. 4927) and FY 2026 Energy and Water Appropriations (no bill numbers yet) related to Nuclear Energy support to university based reactors and support additional research funding for the university program in the Nuclear Energy office of the Department of Energy.
Federaal support for DHS research and development related to wild-land fires, first responder technologies and other research related to the textiles, first responders, and structural firefighting. FY 2025 Appropriations H.R. 8752, no Senate bill) FY2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (through 9/30/2025) H.R. 1968 for DHS.
National Science Foundation, NASA SpaceGrant and NASA Office of Science, NOAA OAR and SeaGrant funding, Department of Defense 6.1 and 6.2 funding, Department of Energy EERE, Office of Science, Nuclear Energy. NIH and HHS research funding. Department of Education FIPSE and FIE funding, USDA Hatch, McIntire-Stennis and AFRI funding in FY 2025 - Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (through 9/30/2025) H.R. 1968 FY 2026 funding levels for those same federal research accounts (no FY 2026 appropriations bill numbers yet).
Name-Image-Likeness legislation that would support student-athletes and and limited antitrust exemptions to allow universities, conferences the NCAA to regulate the marketplace of NIL for student athletes and coordination of standards and guidelines. No bills have been introduced during the 119th Congress yet.
Support federal funding of Hatch Act research, Smith-Lever cooperative extension, McIntire-Stennis cooperative forestry research, Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), NIFA Research Facilities Act funding for infrastructure renewal and renovation. FY2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (through 9/30/2025), H.R. 1968, FY 2026 Agriculture Appropriations (no bill numbers introduced yet) and passage of a Farm Bill (No bill yet introduced in the 119th Congress).
Support federal funding for NIH research related to comparative medicine, zoonotic diseases, animal models of human disease research and other medical related research for biomedical research, veterinary medicine. FY2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (through 9/30/2025) H.R. 1968. No FY 2026 Appropriations bills for Labor/HHS/Education yet introduced.
Federal research investments for US Forest Service, USDA, forestry, natural resources, US Geological Survey Cooperative Research Units (CRUs) including federal funding in FY 2025 FY2025 Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act (through 9/30/2025) H.R. 1968. FY 2026 appropriations bills for USDA (no bills introduced), US Department of Interior Appropriations(no bills introduced) and other forestry research.