Steven Holt: “Mr. Speaker I would like to thank the leadership for bringing this bill to the floor, recognizing the importance of…”

“Mr. Speaker I would like to thank the leadership for bringing this bill to the floor, recognizing the importance of chemistry in our everyday lives, and supporting National Chemistry Week. The gentleman from Michigan, Mr. Ehlers, has been a strong supporter as an original cosponsor of this bill and helped to move it forward. Mr. Ehlers and I do this again as the two physicists in Congress, with no irony that again we physicists would be sponsoring National Chemistry Week. I stand here before you happy to state that in 2003, the last time this body recognized the importance of chemistry in our daily lives, and the importance of National Chemistry Week, I had 3 cosponsors, and this year I have 21 cosponsors. With the world unfolding as it is, and with great rapidity, the increase of cosponsors is an indication of the growing understanding of the importance of chemistry, and science, in our daily lives. JOY OF TOYS THEME FOR NATIONAL CHEMISTRY WEEK The American Chemical Society should be commended for establishing National Chemistry Week in 1987, to raise the awareness of the chemistry in our daily lives, now in its eighteenth year. In particular this year's theme of the ``Joy of Toys'', supports the universality of chemistry and its creations, for each of us has played, and I hope continues to play, with toys. Every child on this planet of ours, regardless of location, does several things growing up: we are innate explorers of this world, and we play.…”