Bush Should Offer Science Agenda in State of the Union

• By Morton M. Kondracke
• Roll Call Executive Editor
• Dec. 8, 2005, Midnight

“It’s an irresistible idea,” says Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and one can only hope that President Bush will embrace it — the idea of using his State of the Union address to launch a major initiative to retain America’s threatened world leadership in science and technology.