Three Republican senators are launching an oversight investigation to determine why measures to bar foreign influences on the hundreds of millions of tax dollars awarded annually by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have not been implemented.
The senators—Rand Paul of Kentucky, Ted Cruz of Texas, and Richard Burr of North Carolina—also want answers on NSF grants in recent years that appear to be intended to favor ideological interest groups in American public policy.
Paul is the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight. Cruz is the top GOP member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee….