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- Subject: More news on information policy picked up on the clintonista
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- From: IN%"CLINTON@MARIST.BITNET" "Discussion of campaigning for President by
- Bill Clinton" 26-JAN-1993 11:23:14.29
- To: IN%"JSHULER@COLGATEU.BITNET" "John A. Shuler"
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- Subj: Computing News From the Hill
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- From: Charlie Rosenberg <crosenberg@igc.org>
- /* Written 7:24 pm Jan 25, 1993 by nis@cerf.net in igc:list.cerfnet */
- From: susan calcari <calcaris@nic.cerf.net>
- From: David J Farber (via RadioMail) <farber@radiomail.net>
- To: interesting_people@aurora.cis.upenn.edu
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-
- Computing news from the Hill
-
- On Thursday, January 21, less than 24 hours after President Clinton
- was inaugurated, Senate Democrats introduced S. 4, the National
- Competitiveness Act. This bill includes most of the components of
- three bills introduced in the last Congress, but blocked by the
- Bush Administration:
- Senator Hollings' Manufacturing Strategy Act
- Senator Gore's Information Infrastructure and Technology Act (S. 2937)
- Senator Hollings' Wind Engineering Act (S. 3273)
- Both the Manufacturing Strategy Act (S. 1330) and S. 3273 came very
- close to passing last year but were blocked (partly because Hollings'
- was in a tight reelection race). S. 2937 (known also as Gore II) was
- doomed the minute he was tapped to run for Vice President.
-
- The computing R&D section of the bill is identical to S. 2937 except
- that if authorizes funding for FY93-95 rather than FY93-97. The rest
- of the bill only covers two or three years, so the funding numbers
- were dropped for the sake of consistency.
-
- In floor statements, the sponsors of the bill (Hollings, Mitchell,
- Rockefeller, Reigle, Lieberman, Bingaman, Kerry, Moseley-Braun, and
- others) made clear that they plan to work closely with the new
- Administration to quickly revise and expand the legislation. There
- is broad support for the legislation which has the support for many
- of the key Democrats involved in technology policy. Last year, this
- legislation was a key component of the Economic Leadership Strategy
- announced and endorsed by Majority Leader Mitchell, Hollings,
- Rockefeller, Gore, Bingaman, Lieberman, and other members of the
- ELS group.
-
- By introducing the bill on the first day bills could be introduced and
- by giving it one of the first five bill numbers (which are reserved
- for five of the bills Democrats are most eager to pass; Republicans
- get S.6 through S. 10), the Senate Democratic leadership is signalling
- that technology and competitiveness will be at the top of the agenda
- in the 103rd Congress.
-
- As he has in the past, Hollings will take the lead in expanding Federal
- efforts to help the manufacturing sector and to give the Department of
- Commerce (esp. its National Institute of Standards and Technology) a
- large role in civilian technology development.
-
- Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) and Senator Hollings (D-SC) are expected
- to carry forward the computing technology initiatives started by
- Vice President Gore (the High-Performance Computing Program and
- S. 2937). During the campaign, both Clinton and Gore gave several
- speeches supporting programs like those called for in S. 4. Their
- September 21, 1992, technology policy paper specifically calls for
- accelerating development of the information infrastructure and
- doubling the NIST budget. In the House, Congressman George Brown,
- Chairman of the House Science Committee, and Congressman Rick
- Boucher (D-VA), Chairman of the Science Subcommittee, are expected
- to introduce a companion bill(s) to S. 4 within the next week or
- two. Boucher has scheduled hearings on computing technology and
- the information infrastructure for the first week of February.
- (For details, call 202/225-8844). Congressman Markey (D-MA), head
- of the House Telecommunication and Finance Subcommittee, held a
- hearing January 19 on the information infrastructure. Witnesses
- included Craig Fields (head of the Micro-electronics and Computer
- Technology Consortium in Austin) and John Sculley (CEO of Apple).
- **** and Mitch Kapor of EFF .. ed***
-
- In addition to S. 4, Senate Democrats are developing a larger
- package of technology and competitiveness legislation that will
- bills on defense conversion, redirecting the DOE labs, helping
- small businesses develop and commercialize new technologies,
- ensuring a strong basic R&D base, and improving worker education
- and training. They are working in concert with the new Administration
- which is assembling a similar package.
-
- FUNDING FOR COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
-
- (In millions of dollars)
- FY93 FY94 FY95 TOTAL
- NSF education 20 40 60 120
- libraries 10 20 30 60
- NIST manufacturing 30 40 50 120
- NIH health care 20 40 60 120
- NASA libraries 10 20 30 60
-
- TOTALS 90 160 230 480
-
-
- > I have been told that Senator Gore has just put in the hopper a bill
- > that would:
-
- > Under the coordination of OSTP have a program to ensure the widest
- > possible application of high performance computing and networking.
-
- > it calls for:
-
- > - the NSF to fund projects to connect primary and secondary schools
- > to NSFNET and to develope educational software and provide teacher
- > training
-
- > - NIST to develope networking technology for manufacturing
-
- > - NIH in conjunction with the NSF and others to develope applications
- > of advanced computer and networking technology for health care. This
- > includes networking to link hospitals, doctor's offices and
- > universities so mediucal data and imagery can be shared. It also
- > charges the development of new software for manipulating medical
- > imery and data.
-
- > - provides funding to NSF and NASA to develope technology for
- > "digital libraries", hugh data bases that store tex, imery, video
- > sound etc. It also funds the development of prototype "digital
- > libraries" around the US.>
-