“There was a bill called the STORM Act which was designed to proactively invest in resilience infrastructure and provide financial tools to municipalities and cities to withstand increasingly difficult storms and weather-related disasters. The STORM Act was held up in Congress, but through FiscalNote, we were able to activate our …

“Many labs were closed, and with researchers unable to conduct experiments and collect data, it meant that so much was lost — valuable time, research information, equipment, even the live animals used. Restarting research that was paused was going to require money.”