Clinton to Push for Tech Funding

[William769]

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton will call for a big boost in federal spending for research and technology in a campaign trip to California's Silicon Valley today.

The New York senator's "innovation agenda," as her campaign calls it, packages familiar and new initiatives that are sure to be popular with her audience at Applied Global University in Santa Clara, as well as the broader high-tech community, which favors Democrats with its votes and money.

Sen. Clinton's agenda won't be so popular with the Republican-leaning oil industry, which she would have either invest more in alternative-energy sources or contribute to a new federal Strategic Energy Fund, which ultimately would reach $50 billion.

The fund would underwrite an agency to coordinate research on energy and global-warming solutions among government, academia and the private sector. It also would provide tax incentives for homeowners and businesses to make energy-efficiency alterations, and for gas-station owners to install E85 pumps for ethanol-enhanced gasoline, and make loans to businesses developing energy and environmental technologies.

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/article/view/?id=1870

[valerief]

1. Funding for the US or India? I know she's big on outsourcing US jobs. nt

[William769]

2. Apparently you did not read the article.

But then ignorance usually don't.

[wakeme2008]

3. Maybe you should read

http://www.plex86.org/computer_2/Hillary-Clinton-bowls-over-Indian-MPs-promises-H1B-increase.html

[HughBeaumont]

4. And more -

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GC01Df03.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/538674.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/593175.cms

[valerief]

7. Thanks.

[valerief]

6. Thanks.

[Totally Committed]

5. Well, of course she is.

Never met a corporation she didn't want to make happy.

TC