Tim Johnson: “I strongly support efforts to increase funding for the National Science Foundation.”

I commend the Chairman and the ranking member for their extraordinary leadership and dedication to double NSF's annual budget.

It seems to me that they ought to be able to part with at least some of them for some of the housing crisis problems we have in Indian country.

And that self-verification is indeed what we do in many other labeling circumstances, whether it is school lunch programs and all kinds of other things, Black Angus, you name it.

I return to work today to this great body with a renewed spirit and a sharper focus.