Zoe Lofgren: “I rise as strong opponent of the arbitrary cap on research and in support of the amendment offered by the gentleman from…”

“I rise as strong opponent of the arbitrary cap on research and in support of the amendment offered by the gentleman from California. I believe that having spent now 3 weeks in Silicon Valley and listening to the CEOs of the most exciting and productive companies in our Nation that the key to our economic future is research and learning new things and cutting-edge endeavors. I believe that putting a cap on this research area will have an unfortunate and hopefully and quite possibly unintended consequence. The amendment of the gentleman from Pennsylvania really picks one promising area of research out of all, and that is this hydrogen bill before us. I agree that hydrogen research is worthy of exploration and may, in fact, play a useful role in our country's future. But it is only one of a rich environment of research possibilities that include solar and even more excitingly fusion research.”