Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize an extraordinary school in my south Florida community, the Miami Hebrew Academy. Founded in 1947 with just a handful of students, the Hebrew Academy was the first Jewish day school in the southeastern…

the President's budget has a 3.8 percent increase for STEM education, in NSF.

I think energy already provides us a rich array of examples in that domain.

the President is requesting $24 million for this Interoperability Standards for Emerging Technologies

if you all are still developing these things 10 years from now that is going to be too late.

Well, they are ready to go out there in the private sector, because they are setting up these electronic medical records as we speak.

I look forward to working with this Committee to make the vision of the President's FY 2012 Budget proposal a reality.

This Administration will ensure that America remains at the epicenter of the ongoing revolution in scientific research and technological innovation.

Both of you did the space walk at the same time?

I just want to say this. We had talked earlier about the need for clean energy, therefore the reduction of our dependence particularly on foreign oil.

We are facing, in the House position, significant cuts.

Well, fine but I bring it---- to your attention, because it has been the conventional wisdom of what--and talked about in the press, what you just said and what we are told in practice is exactly the opposite.

I would love to get $18.7 billion for NASA.

My bottom line is I want a space program that is robust.

I for one would have been happy had we been able to do more across a wide range of government programs, but fiscal responsibility is a big part of the message that we are all working with at this juncture.

I hear the Secretary of Education saying this all along.

Well, the information that I have is contrary to that.

What I would like is a report on your timetable.