• S. __ - FY25 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations - Provide at least $900 million for the Institute of Education Sciences. H.R. __ - FY25 Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations - Provide at least $900 million for the Institute of Education Sciences. H.R. __ - FY25 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations - Community funded project request for $2.2 million to Rice University-Alief ISD Planetary and Space Exploration Education Project. S. __ - FY25 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations - Community funded project request for $2.2 million to Rice University-Alief ISD Planetary and Space Exploration Education Project. H.R. __ - FY25 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations - NASA report language request for in-situ resource utilization and resource recycling; surface mobility; electromagnetic tools; and additive manufacturing. S. __ - FY25 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations - NASA report language request for in-situ resource utilization and resource recycling; surface mobility; electromagnetic tools; and additive manufacturing. H.R. __ - FY25 Energy & Water Appropriations - Department of Energy report language request for National Laboratory Partnerships at Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. S. __ - FY25 Energy & Water Appropriations - Department of Energy report language request for National Laboratory Partnerships at Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. H.R. __ - FY25 Defense Appropriations - Provide an additional $10 million for "Collaborative for Hierarchical and Agile Responsive Materials," Army RDTE, 0602146A (Line 13) Network C3I: $94.576M (+$10M over PBR for energy efficient devices) S. __ - FY25 Defense Appropriations - Provide an additional $10 million for "Collaborative for Hierarchical and Agile Responsive Materials," Army RDTE, 0602146A (Line 13) Network C3I: $94.576M (+$10M over PBR for energy efficient devices) H.R. __ - FY25 Defense Appropriations - Provide an additional $10 million for "Coal, Middlings & Fly Ash as Advanced Materials and Critical Metal Sources," Army RDTE, 0603119A (Line 38) Ground Advanced Technology: $55.880M (+$10M over PBR for "coal-derived advanced materials.") S. __ - FY25 Defense Appropriations - Provide an additional $10 million for "Coal, Middlings & Fly Ash as Advanced Materials and Critical Metal Sources," Army RDTE, 0603119A (Line 38) Ground Advanced Technology: $55.880M (+$10M over PBR for "coal-derived advanced materials.")
• H.R. 6585, the Bipartisan Workforce Pell Act - Oppose Sec. 7a and Sec. 7b due to the negative impact this offset provision would have on undergraduate and graduate students attending institutions subject to the endowment excise tax. H.R. 6951, the College Cost Reduction Act - Oppose changing the current need analysis formula, replacing cost of attendance with the median cost of college for the program of study (Title II, Access and Affordability, Part A, Financial Need); Oppose requiring institutions to pay the federal government annually for a portion of a students unpaid interest and principal of their federal student loans (Title III, Accountability and Student Success, Part A, Accountability); Oppose new guaranteed maximum price institutional eligibility requirements for the PROMISE Grant program (Title II Access and Affordability, Part B, Financial Aid, Subpart 1, Grants); oppose capping total annual borrowing amount at median cost of college, and lowering aggregate student loan limits; oppose eliminating the Grad PLUS and Parent PLUS loan programs (Title II, Access and Affordability, Part B, Financial Aid, Subpart 2, Loans); and oppose significant alterations to accreditation systems and processes.
• Support reforming 26 USC 4968, the excise tax based on investment income of certain private colleges and universities.
• H.R. __ - FY25 National Defense Authorization Act - Support Army report language proposal for Rice University PFAS research collaboration "PFAS Detection and Remediation Research."
• Prospective contact supporting the establishment and funding of an institutional nexus devoted to bilateral U.S. and Latin America regional cooperation on the deployment and implementation of artificial intelligence.

Duration: May 1, 2008 to present

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Education, Taxation/Internal Revenue Code, Defense, Science/Technology, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Energy/Nuclear, Government Issues, Immigration, Manufacturing, Homeland Security, Health Issues, Natural Resources, Small Business, Foreign Relations, Agriculture, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Disaster Planning/Emergencies

Spending: about $2,536,749 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2008: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Natl Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Energy - Dept of, Army - Dept of (Other), Defense - Dept of (DOD), Army - Dept of (Corps of Engineers), Education - Dept of, Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Natl Science Foundation (NSF), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS), State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Labor - Dept of (DOL), Small Business Administration (SBA), Economic Development Administration, Minority Business Development Agency, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force - Dept of, Navy - Dept of, Office of Management & Budget (OMB), Commerce - Dept of (DOC), Treasury - Dept of, Natl Institutes of Health (NIH), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Congressional Budget Office (CBO), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), House of Representatives,, U.S. Senate,, Defense - Dept of (DOD)