Federal funding for research and development totals over $100 billion dollars. The public expects that this research will be conducted independently and objectively. Yet the Bush Administration has:

	obstructed ongoing research by threatening political scrutiny of projects that concern social conservatives;
	obstructed agency research when the results might conflict with the Administration’s agenda;
	undermined outcome assessment, both by creating easy-to-reach performance measures for politically favored programs and by eliminating programs that identify effective initiatives that conflict with the Administration’s ideological agenda;
	blocked publication of research that may upset an affected industry.