Neal Lane Memorandum for President Clinton

• Main Author: Lane, Neal F.
• Other Authors: Funding for the digitization of this material was provided by the National Science Foundation grant SMA SBE 1854055, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, and Humanities Texas., United States. Executive Office of the President, United States. Office of Science and Technology Policy
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University 2000
• Subjects: United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton); Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection; Computer security; Budget process > United States; Science > Economic aspects; Technology > Economic aspects; Science > Political aspects; Technology > Political aspects; Emerging infectious diseases; Mikulski; Barbara; Bond; Christopher S; United States. Congress. Senate; Ice sheets; Climatic changes; Centers for Disease Control (U.S.); United States. Department of Energy; Particles (Nuclear physics); Greenland; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1911/114387

A weekly report memorandum for President Clinton from Neal Lane, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Lane informs Presdient Clinton of recent Senate budgets cuts to the Department of Energy's (DOE) science programs, calls by Senators Bond and Mikulski to double the budget of the National Science Foundation (NSF), elimination of funding for the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection, a recent conference on emerging infectious disease (EID) by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), studies of the Greenland ice sheet, and the discovery of evidence for the subatomic particle called "tau neutrino" at the DOE's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab).