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Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has announced that she will be holding hearings on climate change next year. "Where we have a role, I want the energy committee to be playing a role," she said referring to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Murkowski also expressed her support for scientists at the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in Washington, DC, saying "Know that you've got an advocate in me for the geosciences in Congress." According to the Survey of Earned Doctorates (SED), an annual survey of research degree recipients, U.S. institutions awarded 54,664 research doctorate degrees in 2017, a slight decline from 2016. The largest share of doctorates awarded in 2017 was in the life sciences (23 percent), followed by engineering (18 percent), and psychology and social sciences (17 percent). The report is published annually by the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF).      
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