“If America wants to maintain its innovative edge, create meaningful jobs and realize economic growth, then investment in scientific research must be given a higher priority,” The Science Coalition said in testimony submitted in advance of today’s Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on federal research investments. “When federal funding for research is flat-funded, reduced or subjected to the mandatory cuts of sequestration, we create an innovation deficit that threatens our economic advancement.”

Read the full TSC testimony here.

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