Eric Swalwell: “Thank you to the gentlelady from California (Ms. Lofgren), who has been a tireless advocate for our national…”

“Thank you to the gentlelady from California (Ms. Lofgren), who has been a tireless advocate for our national laboratories and is a fighter on the Science Committee day in and day out as we wage these battles and try and think big and challenge our colleagues to do everything we can to move the ball forward so that we can reach that point where we have clean energy fusion, where we have a renewable source that is safe and reliable and does not require us to look across oceans and time zones to provide our country's energy. With that, I would like to yield to the gentleman from California, my colleague, my former Congressman, my friend, who today is honoring Bow Tie Friday as well, the gentleman from California (Mr. McNerney). Mr. McNERNEY. I certainly want to thank my friend and colleague from Dublin, California, Eroc Swalwell, for bringing this topic up tonight. I want to thank my friend, Zoe Lofgren from San Jose, for being an advocate and a champion of the labs long before I got here and carrying on that great tradition. {time} 1945 What I would like to do tonight is talk about my experience at the lab. When I first got my Ph.D.--and I won't tell you how long ago it was-- I started working for Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. I will tell you that there were a lot of great things about that experience. My colleagues were Bill Sullivan and Don Lobitz. There was Paul Veers.…”