"I’m pleased the Senate accepted an amendment that restricts funding to low-priority political science grants," Coburn said in a statement following the vote. "There is no reason to spend $251,000 studying Americans' attitudes toward the U.S. Senate when citizens can figure that out for free."
And I was so excited to be entering into a Political Science PhD program in the fall...
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zebra2: One of those amendments would prohibit the NSF from funding political science research unless a project is certified as "promoting national security or the
economic interests of the United States."
The one condition is perhaps the most fucked up part of all. It de-legitimizes the NSF in favor of propaganda.