Senators Back Advanced Research Funding At DOE but Say Improved Oversight Needed

摘要

Senators expressed support May 15 for the higher levels of funding sought in President Obama's pro-posed fiscal year 2014 budget for the Energy De-partment's advanced research program, but they called for greater oversight and stronger management of the program. At a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development hearing. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) both praised the program overseen by DOE's Advanced Re-search Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which em-phasizes the development of highly experimental en-ergy technologies.