{"id":1117,"date":"2011-01-10T13:56:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2011-01-10T13:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T18:56:05","slug":"dont-forget-the-federal-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget the Federal Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1120\" title=\"US Capitol\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"US Capitol\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/US_Capitol_South-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>With all the talk about how the university could be affected by actions at the State Capitol, it\u2019s easy to forget how important the federal government is to UW-Madison. The reality is that Bucky gets nearly twice as much money from the federal government ($879 million this year) as it receives from state government ($476 million).<\/p>\n<p>And UW-Madison did very well in securing a good chunk of federal stimulus dollars. Mostly due to stimulus funding, UW-Madison\u2019s federal funding jumped nearly $200 million from 2009-10 to 2010-11. That\u2019s big money.<\/p>\n<p>So where do things stand in D.C. when it comes to federal funding of things like research? One thing we know for sure: UW-Madison and university research generally lost a good friend when Wisconsin Congressman Dave Obey, Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, retired. He was particularly helpful in funding NIH.<\/p>\n<p>With the House now in Republican hands, we learned last week who will chair the House Higher Education Subcommittee. That will be Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, a conservative from North Carolina with a background in higher education. <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/Critic-of-Obama-Policies-Will\/125802\/\">Here<\/a> is a <em>Chronicle of Higher Education<\/em> article on Rep. Foxx.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats still control the Senate, but with a much smaller majority, and President Barack Obama remains in office. We\u2019ll see what divided government means for higher education.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is: While we need to keep a close eye on developments on the other end of State Street, we need to keep the other eye on D.C. How things play out in both places will have a big impact on the future of UW-Madison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the talk about how the university could be affected by actions at the State Capitol, it\u2019s easy to forget how important the federal government is to UW-Madison. The reality is that Bucky gets nearly twice as much money&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=1117\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-national-context","category-uw","tag-federal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1122,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions\/1122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}