Abstract
Last spring, the presidents of 23 scientific societies, with the leadership of the American Chemical Society, joined forces against the slow death of federal funding for scientific research. In a statement released March 4, this coalition representing more than 1 million scientists and engineers urged President Clinton and members of Congress to support an increase of about 7% for fiscal 1998 to the federal research portfolios of the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Departments of Energy and Defense, and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (C&EN, March 10, page 11). was called die 7% solution, says Flint H. Lewis, director of ACS's Office of Legislative & Government Affairs (OLGA). It was also one of die first highly visible intersociety actions of the recently revamped ACS government affairs operation and one of die first major initiatives under Lewis' direction. The effort has been a success in terms of rallying other scientific ...
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