The Senate included an amendment that broadly restricts the ability of the NSF to approve any grants involving political science unless the agency can certify them “as promoting national security or the economic interests of the United States.” The amendment was proposed by Sen. Tom Coburn, a Republican of Oklahoma who has sharply criticized the foundation’s spending priorities… “Studies of presidential executive power and Americans’ attitudes toward the Senate filibuster hold little promise to save an American’s life from a threatening condition or to advance America’s competitiveness in the world,” he wrote. The Senate vote drew condemnation from Michael Brintnall, executive director of the American Political Science Association, who called it a dangerous act of political interference in science.

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by Paul Basken, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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