President Bush Signs Landmark Bill Investing in Science

President Bush has signed into law the America COMPETES Act, the landmark innovation and competitiveness legislation that outlines investing in basic research and promoting math and science programs to keep the U.S. globally competitive.

At a press conference held at the White House on Aug. 9. he praised Congress for working in a bipartisan fashion to get the bill passed and added that the legislation reflected priorities he outlined in his American Competitiveness Initiative.

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While this is nice news, I cannot but think it is superficial and self-serving on his part, and intellectually hypocritical. Bush has one of the worst records vis-a-vis science of any President the country has had, not to mention other areas on incompetence such as diplomacy, foreign policy, strategy, life-sciences, etc., etc.


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