Is this what the favor bank looks like? One politician votes for another politician's pork in trade for a vote on his pork? Trading votes is how legislation gets passed.
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But the Republican-led House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is scrutinizing that request and pointing to such grants as the Norway project. Congressional critics question why the NSF funded researchers to travel 4,000 miles to the Norwegian tourist community of Finnmark, particularly when Alaska is a similar destination and in the United States.
“Americans are tired of writing a blank check to the NSF to pay for foreign vacations,” committee Chairman and Texas GOP Rep. Lamar Smith told FoxNews.com. “Taxpayers’ dollars should focus on national priorities, not European excursions.”
The study was meant to look at the negative and positive impacts of tourism in the Norwegian community.
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The study was conducted by University of Indiana professor Joseph Chen, who on Wednesday provided documents showing his findings have appeared in three peer-reviewed journals, amid questions about whether it had been published.
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The NSF is the primary funding source for about 25 percent of all federally supported basic research at U.S. colleges and universities.
But the Republican-led House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology is scrutinizing that request and pointing to such grants as the Norway project. Congressional critics question why the NSF funded researchers to travel 4,000 miles to the Norwegian tourist community of Finnmark, particularly when Alaska is a similar destination and in the United States.
“Americans are tired of writing a blank check to the NSF to pay for foreign vacations,” committee Chairman and Texas GOP Rep. Lamar Smith told FoxNews.com. “Taxpayers’ dollars should focus on national priorities, not European excursions.”
The study was meant to look at the negative and positive impacts of tourism in the Norwegian community.
[. . .]
The study was conducted by University of Indiana professor Joseph Chen, who on Wednesday provided documents showing his findings have appeared in three peer-reviewed journals, amid questions about whether it had been published.
[. . .]
The NSF is the primary funding source for about 25 percent of all federally supported basic research at U.S. colleges and universities.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/13/gop-house-fed-agency-spending-on-european-excursion-not-science-priorities/
Rep: Feds funded 'European excursion' with $275G Norway tourism study
By Joseph Weber
Rep: Feds funded 'European excursion' with $275G Norway tourism study
By Joseph Weber
Published May 13, 2015
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