The Consortium of Social Science Associations serves as a bridge between research and government and lobbies Congress directly to translate scientific information and findings into sound policy and increased funding.
United States Congress
Demystifying Apportionment Computations for the US House of Representatives
Basic arithmetic skill (multiplication, division, and taking square roots) is all one needs to remove any mystery concerning the details of the computations about how to determine the number of seats each state gets based on its population.
ASA Visits Capitol Hill During Seventh Climate Science Day
On March 21, statisticians Peter Bloomfield, Noel Cressie, Dorit Hammerling, and Leonard Smith joined 23 other scientists for the 7th annual Climate Science Day (CSD), which puts scientists in the same room as lawmakers and their staffs for discussions about climate science research.