I would like to thank the committee. You have given some additional funds in 2018, $20 million, which allowed us to burn back 25 percent of our backlog in minor MILCON, which was really powerful for the labs, and we have taken full…

We must invest in it, and we must also protect it.

I think it makes sense for modernization of facilities that do science and technology to be funded out of science and technology work.

To say it another way, normalizing for inflation and labor cost escalation, this S&T budget has effectively been shrinking for years.

I ask that you follow up on the questions I posed at the end, and other members may have questions that they will submit for the record.

We cannot allow our own bureaucracy to constrain the services from acquiring new technologies...

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Federalist Society

I appreciate the comments of my distinguished chairman on the Environmental Works Committee about carbon capture technology, and I am wondering what part of the carbon emissions problem he thinks carbon capture will solve, because leaders…

I am interested in the other 99 percent. Cloture Motion The PRESIDING OFFICER. Pursuant to rule XXII, the Chair lays before the Senate the pending cloture motion, which the clerk will state. The legislative clerk read as follows: Cloture…

Will the Senator yield for a question? The PRESIDING OFFICER. All time has expired.

How are you working with the interagency on programs that address the underlying conditions of terrorism?

The INDOPACOM region remains one of the most natural disaster-prone areas in the world, and I am concerned that our bases and installations in the region may not be appropriately postured for the threat posed by climate change.

How are you ensuring that countering violent extremism activities in your AOR do not perpetuate and aggravate the underlying conditions that so often lead to extremism?

You and other Administration officials have repeatedly claimed that military action is an option in Venezuela.

I will speak very briefly. Rhode Island is a coastal State, and we are now looking at maps that our coastal agency, the local university, and the scientists at NOAA tell us will create a new face of Rhode Island in the decades ahead if we…

I am asking you today whether you will reconsider your position and go back to that past practice and bring greater transparency.

The United States is committed to our partnerships with Europe, and Congress will continue to support the transatlantic alliance.

Recent proposals from the Trump Administration in the last year to remove several types of military model firearms from the U.S. Munitions List under the jurisdiction of the State Department, and move them to the Commercial Control List…