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American Business and Higher Education Leaders Urge Congress to Act Now on Innovation

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TAP and more than 270 prominent business and higher education leaders have signed The American Innovation Proclamation, which calls upon Congress to:

Renew America's commitment to discovery by doubling the basic research budgets at the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of Energy's Office of Science, and the Department of Defense.

Improve student achievement in math and science through increased funding of proven programs and incentives for science and math teacher recruitment and professional development.

Welcome highly educated foreign professionals, particularly those holding advanced science, technology, engineering, or mathematics degrees, especially from U.S. universities, by reforming U.S. visa policies.

Make permanent a strengthened R&D Tax Credit to encourage continued private-sector innovation investment.

Copies of the Proclamation were delivered to every Capitol Hill office.


Click here to view a PDF. To sign on to the proclamation, click here

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