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Opening Statement:
Ranking Member Frank Lucas
Full Committee Markup of:
This bill authorizes the National Science Foundation to establish a two-year pilot program to award grants to highly qualified early-career investigators to carry out an independent research program at the institution of higher education chosen by such investigator, to last for a period not greater than two years.
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Thank you, Chairwoman Johnson, for holding today’s mark-up. The Supporting Early-Career Researchers Act addresses a great need in our research community, and I’m pleased that this was the first bipartisan bill we introduced together this Congress.
(Washington, DC) – Ranking Member Frank Lucas led Republicans on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee in a letter to Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson today requesting that the Committee hold a hearing on reopening schools safely.