STEVE KNIGHT

The combatant commander asked for the F-35s to fly in Korea a short while ago as a message to those who would try to do our Nation or our allies harm.

I would not shake hands with the government, and I am part of the government.

In a time when the Defense Department maintains technological superiority over our adversaries in combat, our Veterans Affairs Department must continue to push the technological limit to treating our selfless servicemembers once their duty…

I thank the chairman and the ranking member for their leadership on all veteran issues. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in support of H.R. 1162, the No Hero Left Untreated Act. I rise today to stand with our Nation's veterans for whom the trauma…

I come to you, not just as a Representative from my district today but someone who served for 18 years as a Los Angeles police officer on the streets, someone who has been in uniform, at attention, at several police officer and deputy…

I firmly believe that the country is risk aversive, and I think that has stifled us in many of the things that we have tried to do.

Innovation is the engine to our economy.

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.

If basic research produces the scientific feedstock for innovation, risk-taking small businesses are the catalyst for converting knowledge into new products and services.

America's future economic and national security depends on global leadership in key areas of science and technology.

I think that there should be an aggressive agenda, especially coming out of small business, to alleviate some of these problems that small business has to go through.

We must ensure our military is never in a fair fight, and the B-21 will do that by enabling our military leaders to strike anywhere at any time.

It is also in my opinion for Congress to keep this on budget on time, because that is the only way that the American people are going to see that programs work.

Government should be the partner, and then if you are doing something wrong, we should be able to come back and say you are doing something wrong and we are going to ask you to correct it.

I thank the chairman and the ranking member for their leadership on this. Madam Speaker, H.R. 589, the Department of Energy Research and Innovation Act, sets congressional priorities for basic science research and nuclear energy R&D. This…

Female aerospace professionals must be placed in the classroom at greater numbers.

The SBIR and STTR programs have proven very successful at driving small business participation in federal R&D activities.

Small businesses drive our economy and are key to America's global leadership in innovation.

Small Businesses drive our economy and are key to America's global leadership in innovation.

I want to thank this bill's sponsors, Representative Randy Hultgren and Representative Bill Foster, for their longstanding support of basic research and investments in these best-in-the-world science facilities.

I want thank Research and Technology Subcommittee Chairwoman, Mrs. Comstock, and Ranking Member Johnson for their work on STEM issues and in particular promoting opportunities for women in STEM.

My bill will support the research infrastructure needed to conduct leading basic energy science and nuclear physics research initiatives here in the United States.

We need to improve our STEM education pipeline from ensuring STEM classes are available to students at a young age.

I introduced the Women in Aerospace Education Act to make better use of some of the Federal Government's best teacher training programs to increase the number of women teachers who have seen, worked on, and can relate the Nation's leading…

Together, the two provisions of this bill will help make a necessary and fundamental shift in our education system and aerospace work force pipeline that will prove critical to our national security in the long run.