Of course you didn't get a response! You have to get the message across in six or less words, and you used yours on telling him you did the Ice Bucket Challenge. #ifucantfiturmessagewithin1tweetiwon'tbeabletopayattent'n"k David, this one here, from a Mr. Clown..it..zur.., sez 'I took the Ice Bucket challenge and-' "
"ok, sort it in to the icebucket pile, Kim, thnx"
For sure, but in my defense it was a one paragraph letter. A short paragraph. In Congressman Price's defense, he has called for increased funding for the sciences: His take on partisan politics and the NIH:No one wants to return to the days of the congressional barons, but the inability of Congress to perform stems in part from the decreased power of committee chairs. Winding up his book tour in Washington at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast with reporters, Gates recalled how presidents used to call committee chairs to the White House, and together they decided what needed to be done, “and those guys could deliver,” he said. Price recalls committees serving as “incubators for ideas,” and funding for medical research and the NIH routinely approved, “that was a bipartisan juggernaut.” With today’s austerity, barely 8 percent of NIH approved grants get funded.
from this article
Hey, no, you tried, I figured you wanted to be as succinct as you could. That'd be my game too. And good on him. But... I wonder how he votes on it. A little research tells me that he actually has quite a nice track record concerning science funding in general, but can't commit to doing something for the NIH right now, for whatever reason. I can't figure out if they put the sentence about the NIH in their response because he (or someone on his staff) actually read to the bit past the acronym "ALS", or if it was just in the generic email.
You are right about his track record though. In this regard, it seems Congressman Price is one of the good guys.I can't figure out if they put the sentence about the NIH in their response because he (or someone on his staff) actually read to the bit past the acronym "ALS", or if it was just in the generic email.
I don't know, but my guess is that it was a pre made letter that went out to all Ice Bucketers.