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The research and development activities at the Department of Transportation (DOT) are vital to the nation's prosperity.

I think this is a potential area where my personal view of hearing your testimony that without limiting accountability that there is some significant progress that can potentially be made to improve the situation.

Our hearing today on Reducing the Administrative Workload for Federally Funded Research brings forward an important subject for all of us; reducing burdensome red tape caused by an overly entangled bureaucratic web on the research…

I want to be sure we address the concern that 42 percent of a researcher's time, according to the FDP, is spent on administrative tasks which may take away from the conduct of science.

Our hearing today on reducing the administrative workload for federally funded research, brings forward an important subject for all of us: reducing burdensome red tape caused by an overly entangled bureaucratic web on the research…

Unfortunately, despite these promising activities funded directly by the NSF, the President's budget for key directorates that carry out nanotechnology research within NSF's Research and Related Activities Account (RRA) is disappointing.

This application of nanoscience to medicine not only fascinating but also having important implications for our Nation's national security and economy.

Nanotechnology is an area of great promise for the future of the U.S. economy.

I ask through the Chair, if the Senator from Oregon would be willing to enter into a dialogue with me. I have a couple of questions, but I also want to respond to the efforts he has made in a bipartisan way so we were able to move forward…

I ask to be recognized for part of that time. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator from Indiana is recognized. Majority Leadership

What is the current status of the floor? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senate is in divided time until 11:15.

I want to thank my colleague, the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Polis), for his support of this amendment, and, more importantly, for his remarkable vision and leadership in charter schools across the country. I have no further comments…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 16, line 7, strike ``and''. Page 16, line 13, insert ``and'' at the end. Page 16, after line 13…

I want to focus on what do we do with the debris that is already there?

So many of the CEOs and owners of those businesses indicate that they are underperforming.

The smaller entities really can't afford to do that.

What we got hung up on before was the reluctance of the private sector to, quote, ``trust'' that they could coordinate with the Federal Government in a way that would protect their privacy and all that.

The perpetrators or the criminals, the actors, the States, et cetera, they only have to be successful once; we have to be successful 100 percent of the time in trying to stop all their efforts.