{"id":24,"date":"2008-06-06T12:52:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T20:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/nanotechnology\/2008\/06\/06\/mid-course-corrections-house-passes-nni-reauthorization-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:02:31","slug":"mid-course-corrections-house-passes-nni-reauthorization-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2008\/06\/06\/mid-course-corrections-house-passes-nni-reauthorization-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-course Corrections:   House Passes NNI Reauthorization Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008 (<a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:h.r.05940:\">H.R. 5940<\/a>), by a vote of 407-6.\u00a0 Among other changes, the bill calls for a number of much-needed improvements in how the NNI addresses health and environmental concerns associated with nanotechnology.\u00a0 See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/pressrelease.cfm?contentID=7967\">EDF\u2019s news release<\/a> issued today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Denison, Ph.D., is a Senior Scientist. Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed the National Nanotechnology Initiative Amendments Act of 2008 (H.R. 5940), by a vote of 407-6.\u00a0 Among other changes, the bill calls for a number of much-needed improvements in how the NNI addresses health and environmental concerns associated with nanotechnology.\u00a0 See &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[39206],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","tag-national-nanotechnology-initiative-nni"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12925,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/12925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}