U.S. CONGRESS:
New Leaders Emerge After Senate Shake-Up
David Malakoff
A political earthquake has U.S. science advocates scrambling to survey a dramatically altered Washington, D.C., landscape. With Republican Senator Jim Jeffords's (VT) announced defection from his party, control of the Senate will switch to the Democrats. That power shake-up, say science lobbyists, could affect both research budgets and science policy.