Zoe Lofgren

I was glad that Mr. Altman in his testimony indicated that creators should be compensated and do have rights.

I'll express some disappointment that progress that I expected to have been made by now has not yet been made.

The question is, how will that work to protect creators?

I believe that AI is going to upend a lot of careers.

Listening to you is really inspiring, and I think of all of the efforts that each one of you has made to keep our country safer.

It is my hope that Congress can rise to the challenge this year to get our nation's firefighters the resources they need to do their jobs and to support our state and local officials in the fight against wildfires.

I look forward to today's discussion on reauthorizing these bills and how Congress can help ensure that the brave men and women who really stepped forward to protect us all can get the support that's concrete.

I'm hoping that this Congress we can rise to the challenge and get our Nation's firefighters the resources that they need to do their jobs.

As we look ahead at the future of NOAA, I look forward to working with Chairman Lucas and colleagues on both sides of the aisle to continue to focus on identifying and investing in the necessary solutions to address severe weather and the…

We need accurate forecasting. Both to pre-deploy resources for predicted devastating fires, to help our farmers prepare for, you know, devastating flooding, and many other things.

I believe that the President's budget request contains a number of programs and activities to expand NOAA's capabilities and increase the resiliencies of communities.

I think NOAA is just a critically important scientific agency, and we all know it has a direct effect on the livelihoods of all Americans.

I think the budget request is a positive step, but as the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee has mentioned, in the proposed 22 percent budget cut that passed the House a couple of weeks ago, I think that would be pretty--a pretty…

The situation with flooding in California is pretty severe, and actually probably going to get worse

I am grateful to Representative Ross for the expertise and diligence and hard work that she puts in on the Science Committee. Her knowledge is invaluable, but there is something else. In this body, we know there is sometimes acrimony and…

There are still a very dangerous toxics. In some cases, they can't be replaced in the production.

Part of this challenge we face in implementing CHIPS and Science is workforce.

This is a problem decades in the making and it will require sustained support from Congress to overcome.

I am happy that President Biden has continued his commitment to science and manufacturing, as reflected in his Fiscal Year budget request for NIST.

If fab workers don't have the capacity for their--for childcare, they can't come to work.

This is really essential for the development of industry in the United States.

It is essential that Congress follows through with funding, and that NIST continues to provide timely updates to us on the state of its facilities.

If I could interrupt, the OSHA Director himself said that their standards were insufficient, so I'm hoping that we can reach out to EPA for the gold standard on some of these chemicals.

I think there's more money going to the implementation by VCs than there is by the government into science.

We ought to have an Applied Energy Office for fusion, just as we do for nuclear energy.