STEVE KNIGHT: “If basic research produces the scientific feedstock for innovation, risk-taking small businesses are the catalyst for…”

If you are, then I want you. You do not have to have 4 years of schooling if you learned it in 1 year.

I plan to withdraw my amendment, but before I do, Madam Chair, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Calvert) to engage in a brief colloquy.

I appreciate the strong support from a number of my colleagues in regards to an issue that is vitally important to California's 25th Congressional District. Citizens of Santa Clarita, California, have fought for over two decades against a…

Basic research supported with taxpayer dollars through the National Science Foundation, NASA, NIH, DOD, and other Federal agencies underpins the key scientific discoveries that have created today's world.