Dear Colleagues, Congressman Rush Holt has published an editorial in Science decrying the expected cuts to basic R&D resulting from the Budget Control Act of 2011. Former Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Congressman Holt is the only PhD physicist in Congress. The article can be read online at: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6049/1549.full.pdf?sid=7d8acda2-ed1c-42b5-a575-956ab03425c4 Sincerely, Norman Graf