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Representative Bill Foster (D-IL) has introduced legislation to address the distribution of funding from the National Science Foundation across states. The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, better known as EPSCoR, provides roughly $500 million a year in research funding to scientists in states and territories who receive relatively little federal funding. H.R. 3763 would change the formula for program eligibility to a per-capita basis. Currently, a state can qualify for EPSCoR funding if it receives no more than 0.75 percent of NSF’s overall annual research budget. The Government Accountability Office will take up Senator Bill Nelson’s (D-FL) request to investigate potential violations of scientific integrity policies by the Trump Administration. The agency plans to begin the review in early 2018 “when staff will become available.”      
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