Office of Federal Governmental Relations

Issues and Policy Papers

The University of California's Office of Federal Governmental Relations is actively involved in a wide variety of issues affecting the university, students, faculty, staff as well as California, K-12 education and other issues.

UC develops issue papers on a variety of topics and legislative initiatives, including:

* Bioterrorism
* Cloning and Stem Cell Research
* NIH Salary Cap
* Extramural Research Facilities Funding
* Medicare Direct Graduate Medical Education
      Payments (DGME)
* Medicare Inpatient Prospective System (PPS)
* Medicaid Disproportionate Share Hospital
      Payments (DSH)
* Medicaid Upper Payment Limit (UPL)
* Renewal of California's Selective Provider
      Contracting Program (SPCP)

UC also develops papers that examine the impact of the federal budget on particular agencies and programs as they relate to the University of California. These include:

* Department of Agriculture (USDA)
* Department of Defense (DOD)
* Department of Education (ED)
* Department of Energy (DOE)
* Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
* National Institutes of Health (NIH)
* National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
* National Science Foundation (NSF)
* NASA