Johnson is the Ranking Minority Member on the Research Subcommittee. The Johnson bill has sixteen Democratic cosponsors from the House Science Committee. The senators and representatives named above have spoken up in support of science and technology, and their efforts should be recognized and acknowledged. The President is largely setting the fiscal pace for half the members of the House and Senate, and the budget which he sends to Congress on Monday is almost certainly going to call for flat or almost flat funding for science programs. Competition for funding in the appropriations bills is going to be especially strong this year.
Vocal constituents are likely to be successful constituents.