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Witnesses testified on drought monitoring and predictions.They urged Congress to reauthorize the National Integrated Drought Information System. Other recommendations included improving earl…

Witnesses testified on a report on weather satellite programs Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite - R Series (GOES-R). They said the pro…

John Holdren testified about programs administered by the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), as well as its roles, responsibilities, operations, management and its function in s…

Witnesses testified on fire service worker priorities and the effectiveness of the U.S. Fire Administration. Topics of discussion included budget constraint issues for the Fire Administratio…

Secretary Chu testified on the Energy Department’s fiscal year 2013 budget request. Questions focused on the high price of gasoline, the potential of tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Res…

Finalists from the 2011 ExploraVision contest appeared at a hearing on science, technology, engineering, and math education. ExploraVision is a science competition in which teams of students…

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden spoke about human space flight one week before the scheduled launch of the final Space Shuttle mission. In his remarks he vowed that the U.S. would not lose…

Witnesses testified about the TSA’s Passenger Screening Behavior Detection Program known as SPOT. The program utilizes behavior detection officers to spot unique facial expressions and body …

Charles Bolden testified about the Obama administrations fiscal year 2012 budget request for NASA. The request was for $18.7 billion, with $4.3 billion for the Space Shuttle and Internationa…