Salmon Bill Would End National Science Foundation’s Dissertation

Rep. Matt Salmon introduced his latest bill to eliminate a duplicative NSF report on standardization in the United States, which is the seventh bill in his 2016 Shrink our Spending Initiative.

“What should be a niche field of study for a college history professor is instead a government-requested report, paid for by the National Science Foundation. ‘The History of Standardization’ is the research goal of a report requested by the NSF to study weights and measures in American exchange and customs enforcement. To make matters worse, we’ve had a government-printed report on this very topic for over 40 years, and if there’s one thing that shouldn’t need updating, it’s history,” said Salmon in a statement rleased last week.

In 1975, the Office of Weights and Measures authored a report on the history and standardization of American measurements and the American Customary System. There is no evidence that that report requires any amendment, or that it was in any way in error, yet in 2014, the National Science Foundation spent $188,021 in taxpayer dollars funding a new report through the University of Georgia. Grant information can be found here.

In 2014, Rep. Salmon began a program to identify and cut wasteful spending government-wide, because he knew every federal department, office, and agency has wasteful spending within their budgets. The program was called the “Shrink Our Spending” Initiative and aimed at finding $ 1.5 billion in wasteful spending. In 2015, the initiative identified and cut over $3 billion in government waste.

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