Dana Rohrabacher: “I think we should. Mr. Speaker, I asked for this time to report to theHouse on a field briefing and site visit that was…”

“I think we should. Mr. Speaker, I asked for this time to report to theHouse on a field briefing and site visit that was held on August 8, a hearing and field briefing that was hosted by the Energy and Environmental Subcommittee which I chair. Joining me at that field briefing were four other members of the Committee on Science: Mr. Schiff, the distinguished chairman of the Basic Research Subcommittee, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Foley, and Mr. Stockman. The field briefing could well have been called: Free Enterprise Works. Each of the sites that we visited gave us a firsthand look and a better understanding of the private sector's response to environmental challenges. We found that in southern California new technologies are emerging to clean and purify the environment and to make a profit, to boot. We began the day by attending a ground-breaking for C-launch. This is an innovative project of the Boeing Corporation which will launch commercial satellites from platforms based at sea. I am particularly pleased that Boeing has chosen the site of the now closed Long Beach Naval Station for its home port, bringing much-needed jobs to the area. We next visited the Long Beach headquarters of Gridcore. Gridcore is a company that has commercialized technology originally developed at the Department of Agriculture research lab in Wisconsin. They are a proud example of a public-private partnership. The result of this cooperation is a remarkable product.…”