Commemorating the National Science Foundation's 75th anniversary.
This resolution (HRES 417) is a symbolic gesture to honor the National Science Foundation (NSF) on its 75th anniversary. It recognizes the NSF’s founding in 1950 to advance science, engineering, and education, highlighting its role in supporting research across all 50 states, fostering global scientific collaboration, and enabling key innovations like the internet, MRI technology, and AI. The resolution does not create new policy or funding but formally commends the NSF’s mission and achievements, including its annual support for roughly 350,000 researchers and its contribution to 268 Nobel Prize-winning discoveries. It concludes by reaffirming congressional support for the NSF’s ongoing work.
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Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
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André Carson
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April McClain Delaney
DDemocratic
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Bill Foster
DDemocratic
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Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann
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Danny K. Davis
DDemocratic
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Debbie Dingell
DDemocratic
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
DDemocratic
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Frank D. Lucas
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Haley M. Stevens
DDemocratic
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Jahana Hayes
DDemocratic
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