blog posts UIS Students Meet Rep. Schock Feb 26, 2013 1:30 pm2 views UIS students had the opportunity to meet Rep. Aaron Schock during a February visit to Washington. NCSA Leaders Champion Blue Waters May 8, 2013 1:30 pm5 views Two NCSA staff members visited DC recently to promote the use of Blue Waters, the Cray-based supercomputer in Champaign. White House Honors UIC's Sivananthan May 29, 2013 1:30 pm19 views A UIC professor was honored as a "Champion of Change" at a White House event for immigrant entrepreneurs and innovators. Dr. Gallagher Promotes Center for Wounded Veterans Jun 5, 2013 1:30 pm4 views Dean Gallagher visited DC to promote the planned center for veterans. Senate Looks at Student Loan Interest Rate Bills Jun 6, 2013 1:30 pm2 views Can Congress reach a bipartisan compromise before the student loan interest rate doubles in July? DC Visitors: Week of June 24 Jun 28, 2013 1:30 pm0 views UIC Physics Professor Nikos Varelas, Urbana Professor Stephen Long, President Robert Easter, VPR Larry Schook, and Professor Bill King came to DC. Center for Global Studies Brings Educators to DC Jul 2, 2013 1:45 pm2 views On July 1st and 2nd, the Center for Global Studies brought the international secondary educators to Washington D.C. DC Visitors: Week of July 8 Jul 12, 2013 1:45 pm0 views Professor Bill King and OVPR's Caralynn Nowinski were in D.C. for the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation (DMDI) Institute Proposers' Day. DC Visitors: Week of July 15 Jul 19, 2013 1:45 pm2 views This week in Washington, we had our Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG) leadership team on Capitol Hill to raise the profile of TCIPG's revolutionary work to make the power grid more secure. Senate Passes Student Loan Interest Rate Deal Jul 25, 2013 1:45 pm1 views Yesterday, the Senate took up an amended version of the House-passed "Smarter Solutions for Students Act," which reflects the compromise brokered by a bipartisan group of Senators. This Week in IL: Sen. Durbin Visits UIUC Jul 25, 2013 1:45 pm1 views Earlier today, Senator Durbin visited the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. To kick off his visit, he held a press event to publicize the long-term deal that was reached on student loan interest rates... DC Visitors: UIUC College of ACES Assistant Professors Jul 29, 2013 1:45 pm0 views Nine assistant professors from UIUC's College of ACES visited DC the week of July 29 to learn about federal funding opportunities for research. DC Visitors: Week of July 29 Jul 29, 2013 1:45 pm1 views College of Medicine Dean Dimitri Azar and Dr. Gene Robinson, Professor in Entomology and Neuroscience were in DC this week. House Approves Student Loan Interest Rate Bill Aug 1, 2013 1:45 pm5 views Yesterday evening, the House passed the final version of the student loan interest rate legislation with overwhelming support, by a vote of 392 to 31. This Week in IL: Transportation Roundtable Sep 6, 2013 1:45 pm17 views This past Thursday, President Easter and Congressman Mike Quigley hosted a roundtable with a variety of transportation stakeholders to discuss sustainable transportation solutions for the Chicagoland area. VCR Peter Schiffer Visits NSF Sep 13, 2013 1:45 pm5 views During his trip to DC, VCR Peter Schiffer had a full slate of meetings at the National Science Foundation... UIC Student Delegation Visits Capitol Hill Sep 20, 2013 1:45 pm6 views Earlier this week, UIC Student Trustee Danielle Leibowitz led a delegation of UIC students to Washington. UI's IGPA Honors Former Senator Snowe Sep 25, 2013 1:00 pm2 views Yesterday, the University of Illinois’ Institute of Government and Public Affairs (IGPA) co-hosted the Paul H. Douglas Award for Ethics in Government ceremony with Senator Dick Durbin. UIUC Wins $1.4 Million UTC Grant Sep 26, 2013 1:00 pm2 views In a recent announcement by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National University Rail (NURail) Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was awarded a $1.4 million Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC) grant. Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 9.27.2013 Sep 27, 2013 1:00 pm3 views The end of the fiscal year is just days away, and there is no agreement in sight that would keep the government funded... Farm Bill Update - 10.7.2013 Oct 7, 2013 1:00 pm1 views Although the 9-month extension of the 2008 farm bill expired on the 1st, Congress is close to negotiating the final reauthorization language... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 10.11.2013 Oct 11, 2013 1:00 pm0 views Earlier in the week, House Republicans continued its pattern of passing discrete and politically popular funding bills designed to take the “sting” out of the shutdown... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 10.18.2013 Oct 18, 2013 1:00 pm0 views After being closed for 16 days, the federal government has finally reopened, allowing hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal employees to return to work... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 10.25.2013 Oct 25, 2013 1:00 pm0 views With the Senate in recess and the House only in session on Tuesday and Wednesday, it was a shorter and quieter week on Capitol Hill... TSC Releases Sparking Economic Growth 2.0 Oct 29, 2013 2:00 pm7 views A new report entitled “Sparking Economic Growth 2.0” was released today by The Science Coalition (TSC), a national association comprised of public and private research universities... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 11.1.2013 Nov 1, 2013 2:00 pm21 views Since this was the first week that the House and the Senate were both back in session, two significant conference committee meetings took place... Rep. Bustos & UI Issue Economic Report Nov 5, 2013 2:00 pm2 views This past August, Congresswoman Cheri Bustos hosted three regional meetings as part of her “Partnering for Illinois’ Economic Future” initiative... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 11.8.2013 Nov 8, 2013 2:00 pm0 views The Senate was in session this week, and the House was in recess. But substantial groundwork continues to be laid for the reauthorization of bills important to UI... Center for Wounded Veterans Groundbreaking Nov 8, 2013 2:30 pm5 views Earlier today at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a number of campus and government leaders broke ground for the Chez Family Foundation Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 11.15.2013 Nov 15, 2013 2:30 pm4 views Although the week was dominated by the media covering the false-starts of the roll-out of the President's health care portal, important conversations were happening around sealing a potential budget agreement and partially curbing sequestration... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 11.22.2013 Nov 22, 2013 3:00 pm3 views This week spurred a sense of optimism around the possibility of a budget agreement that would replace a portion of sequestration cuts... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 12.6.2013 Dec 6, 2013 3:00 pm1 views Upon returning from the Thanksgiving recess, the chairs of the House and Senate Budget committees, Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray, resumed discussions over spending levels and sequestration... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 12.13.2013 Dec 13, 2013 3:00 pm1 views On Tuesday evening, the chairs of the House and Senate Budget Committees, Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Patty Murray, announced that they had reached a two-year budget agreement after weeks of deliberation... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 12.20.2013 Dec 20, 2013 3:15 pm0 views On Wednesday, the Senate passed the two-year budget deal by a vote of 64-36... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 1.10.2014 Jan 10, 2014 3:15 pm0 views Both the House and the Senate returned to DC this week with a critical deadline looming—the expiration of the current continuing resolution on January 15... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 1.17.2014 Jan 17, 2014 3:15 pm0 views Just weeks after a prolonged government shutdown in October, both the House and Senate passed an omnibus appropriations bill that returns Congress to some semblance of budgetary normalcy... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 1.24.2014 Jan 24, 2014 3:15 pm1 views Following last week's passage of an omnibus appropriations bill, both chambers recessed for a week... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 1.31.2014 Jan 31, 2014 3:15 pm0 views On Wednesday, the House approved the farm bill conference report by a vote of 251-166... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 2.7.2014 Feb 7, 2014 3:15 pm2 views Following last week's passage in the House, the farm bill conference report was taken up early this week by the Senate... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 2.14.2014 Feb 14, 2014 3:15 pm2 views Congress lifted the debt ceiling this week with a very close vote in the House but no strings attached, signaling a potential cease fire in the budgetary wars that have gripped Washington the past three years... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 2.21.2014 Feb 21, 2014 3:15 pm4 views Both the House and the Senate had district work periods this week, but will be in session next week... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 2.28.2014 Feb 28, 2014 3:15 pm7 views This past Wednesday, House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp introduced a discussion draft with the intention to have it lay the foundation for future comprehensive tax reform legislation... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 3.7.2014 Mar 7, 2014 3:15 pm0 views President Barack Obama released his preliminary budget request on Tuesday... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 3.14.2014 Mar 14, 2014 3:15 pm3 views This week, OGR submitted the University of Illinois' Fiscal Year 2015 programmatic requests to the Illinois Congressional delegation... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 3.21.2014 Mar 21, 2014 3:30 pm0 views Both the House and the Senate were on recess this week. The House returns on Monday... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 3.28.2014 Mar 28, 2014 3:30 pm2 views The House passed a one-year delay to the “sustainable growth rate” (SGR)—the rate at which Medicare reimburses physicians, averting a 24 percent cut to doctors... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 4.4.2014 Apr 4, 2014 3:30 pm0 views Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) announced she will hold a hearing on innovation and budget cuts on April 29... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 4.11.2014 Apr 11, 2014 3:30 pm1 views The House narrowly approved Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's FY 2015 budget resolution along highly partisan lines... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 4.18.2014 Apr 18, 2014 3:30 pm8 views The House and Senate were not in session this week. Both chambers will be in recess again next week... Federal Relations E-Newsletter - 4.25.2014 Apr 25, 2014 3:30 pm0 views Both the Senate and House were in recess this week and will return to session on Monday...
