Congress's sci-tech agenda to shift under Democrats | csmonitor.com

Congress's sci-tech agenda to shift under Democrats | csmonitor.com:

"Ordinarily, broad science goals - such as better science education or the American Competitiveness Initiative - draw bipartisan support. But there are some divisive science topics on the Democrats' early agenda - namely embryonic stem-cell research - and these highly charged science and environmental issues will be one barometer of the durability of cross-aisle cooperation.

'If this stated spirit of bipartisanship is to occur, one of the best places to look is going to be in the area of science and technology,' says Roger Pielke Jr., director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado at Boulder. 'If it doesn't occur in science and technology, I wouldn't expect that it's likely to occur elsewhere.'"