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APS' priority advocacy issues
These are the issues that APS leaders and members have identified this year as vital to advancing the needs of the scientific community. Learn more about and choose the issues that are important to you and use our form to contact your members of Congress and make your voice heard.
To maintain U.S. leadership in science and innovation, Congress must finalize FY2025 appropriations with strong investments in federal science agencies — or risk stalling progress and innovation.
The 2018 National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) advanced U.S. quantum science, creating 14 QIS centers and numerous partnerships. As a five-year authorization, it now requires renewal to maintain U.S. competitiveness in this critical field.
Graduate students and postdocs are a critical part of the research and development (R&D) workforce.
International STEM students and scientists are essential to U.S. research, the economy, and society, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise.
Carbon dioxide removal technologies may be a necessary complement to reducing emissions in addressing climate change but also require research to determine their efficacy and policy guidelines to ensure a dramatic scale-up is prudently carried out.
The U.S. needs a comprehensive strategy rebuilding our education pipeline, beginning with K-12 education.
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