1. 5/11/01 RHIC-AGS User's Meeting R. Seto Getting money (or more running time) A bigger picture Taxpayer President Congress DOE DOE office of science BNL for running time Your contract DOE Office of science and NSF funded poorly in presidents budget (~flat funded) Last year ~15% increase No science advisor or DOE/OS boss See your congressman! Congressional Visit Day

2. 5/11/01 RHIC-AGS User's Meeting R. Seto Congressional Visit Day Put on by Science-Engineering-Technology work group – all sorts of people from the APS/IBM etc etc APS participated via Public Affairs office – Mike Lubell RKS-Tim Hallman from RHIC – others from DNP etc Constituent (e.g. me) visits local congressman (e.g. Rep Calvert R- CA) together with 2-4 other science types IBMer for the APS, FNAL(Enest Malamud), UCR(Vice-chancellor) – would have been nice to have a student Briefing by DOE-Decker/NSF/NASA-Goldin/AAAS-science analyst/OMB Heard from Hall (D-Tx senior democratic member of science comm Senators Mikulski and Bond – supporters of NSF

3. 5/11/01 RHIC-AGS User's Meeting R. Seto Message R and D in basic research is the driving force behind economic expansion K-12 Education Office of Science – visibility I Saw – Honda – D Science Comm (Ibm almedan) Lofgren – D (livermore) Calvert – R -Science Comm (UCR) Staff of Cox – R (Irvine) Staff of Rohrbacher R Science Comm, chair of space (Newport Beach) Message is generally well received by BOTH Republicans and Democrats

4. 5/11/01 RHIC-AGS User's Meeting R. Seto Bush Whitehouse needs to be trained in value of science At the moment – not a priority The final budget will be better than it is, not as good as you want Newt Ginrich is your friend  The republicans are here!  Missile defense  Drill for oil  Nuclear Power  Careful – global warming Comments from Republicans

5. 5/11/01 RHIC-AGS User's Meeting R. Seto Conclusions I think it was well worth the effort See your LOCAL congressman- they will talk to you We need to target key folks – particularly on appropriations Keep working at it – Boehlert “we have now caught up with the beer distillers” (George Brown) Lubell may contact us at critical points to make visits and write letters