{"id":5340,"date":"2021-06-10T16:29:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5340"},"modified":"2021-06-10T16:29:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:29:44","slug":"how-congress-wrecked-its-own-science-bill-explained-in-600-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5340","title":{"rendered":"How Congress wrecked its own science bill, explained in 600 words"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Earlier this year, it looked like Congress would do the unthinkable: pass a truly big, bipartisan bill. The legislation, known as the Endless Frontier Act, would provide a huge funding boost to American science research \u2014 framed as a way to compete with China. In the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) led the charge, and it looked like the bill would pass with support from both parties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in the past few months, two things happened: As the legislation worked through the Senate process, it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.niskanencenter.org\/how-congress-ruined-the-endless-frontier-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">was watered down<\/a>, reducing how much new funding would go to research. Then last week, a vote on the bill was delayed, as Republicans threatened to kill the legislation altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put it another way: A bill meant to show the US could own China instead proved how dysfunctional the American political system is.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/6\/4\/22518923\/endless-frontier-act-innovation-competition-act-china-congress\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/6\/4\/22518923\/endless-frontier-act-innovation-competition-act-china-congress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Earlier this year, it looked like Congress would do the unthinkable: pass a truly big, bipartisan bill. The legislation, known as the Endless Frontier Act, would provide a huge funding boost to American science research \u2014 framed as a way to compete with China. In the Senate, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) led the charge, and it looked like the bill would pass with support from both parties.<br \/>\nBut in the past few months, two things happened: As the legislation worked through the Senate process, it was watered down, reducing how much new funding would go to research. Then last week, a vote on the bill was delayed, as Republicans threatened to kill the legislation altogether.<\/p>\n<p>To put it another way: A bill meant to show the US could own China instead proved how dysfunctional the American political system is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,542,811],"class_list":["post-5340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-congress","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5341,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5340\/revisions\/5341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}