Jim Sensenbrenner: “last week in a bipartisan effort, the Committee on Science favorably reported H.R. 2429, as amended, a bill to…”

“last week in a bipartisan effort, the Committee on Science favorably reported H.R. 2429, as amended, a bill to reauthorize the Small Business Technology Transfer Program [STTR] through fiscal year 2000. This week, the Committee on Science and the Committee on Small Business, again working in a bipartisan fashion, have agreed to incorporate H.R. 2429 into H.R. 2261, the Small Business Programs Reauthorization and Amendments Acts of 1997. I would like to thank the ranking member of the Science committee, Mr. Brown, the Subcommittee on Technology chairwoman, Mrs. Morella, and the ranking member of that subcommittee, Mr. Gordon, for their efforts to reauthorize STTR. I would also like to thank the chairman of the Committee on Small Business, Mr. Talent, for the great cooperation he and all his staff have shown in working with the Science Committee to reauthorize STTR. STTR was started as a pilot program in 1994. STTR was enacted to provide high technology, small businesses across the country an opportunity to receive Federal R&D funding for ideas that were originated in, and developed in cooperation with, nonprofit research institutions such as universities. It is financed by a 0.15 percent set-aside from the extramural R&D budgets of five agencies: the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the National Science Foundation.”