We have such widespread support because businesses know that their employees thrive when they are free from harassment, when they are able to visit doctors, take their children to school, and live freely.

Now is the time for legal discrimination against an entire community of Americans to end.

Thank you, Chairman Nadler, for calling this hearing and for your outspoken and unwavering support of the Equality Act from the very first moment we began to discuss it nearly 5 years ago.

This bill is bipartisan and now has 240 cosponsors, including 3 Republicans.

As our LGBTQ brothers and sisters move around this Nation, they should never have to fear losing a job, being evicted from a house or apartment, refused service at a restaurant, denied approval for a loan, or rejected admission to a school…

It is simply not right, and it undermines core founding values of this great country of fairness and equality.

And today, I am proud that we have the greatest number of individuals from the LGBTQ community in the House of Representatives in U.S. history with eight openly lesbian, gay, and bisexual Members.

Mr. Cicilline, I ask the witness be permitted to finish her answer to that last question.

As my great friend and colleague Congressman John Lewis told me when we began this work on the bill, the time is now.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act, long overdue legislation to close the gender wage gap and ensure equal pay for equal work. Too many Americans are not…

this week the Senate conveyor belt of President Trump's judicial nominees grinds on. So far, the President and the Senate leader have an unprecedented pace in confirming Federal judges, especially powerful Federal appellate judges. They…

We must do more to educate, inform, and protect our defense innovation ecosystem from these threats...

The subcommittee will come to order. I want to welcome everyone to today's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 President's budget request for the Department of Defense science and technology programs.

This S&T ecosystem is charged with delivering the best capabilities to the warfighter in the near, mid and long term.

Thank you, Ranking Member Stefanik. I want to thank you for your remarks.

Now more than ever, our science and technology enterprise plays a strategic role that is fundamental to our national and economic security.

I thank the ranking member. I want to thank all of our witnesses for your testimony today.

I am concerned that our S&T investments represent an alarmingly small percentage of our overall defense budget...