Ed Perlmutter

I have an amendment at the desk, number 28.

I urge my colleagues, Democrats and Republicans, to support the amendment to restore the $471 million cut to earth sciences.

And thank you, Mr. Lipinski. You'll have the opportunity on the next bill for STEM education grants to add $8 million.

I wanted to support this legislation and cosponsor it because Huntsville, the Marshall Space Center, is one of 10 centers that NASA uses to make sure that we're preeminent in the space program and that we will get our astronauts out there…

What this amendment does at page 27, line 12, it adds the Committee is supposed to also consider our aerospace industry's access to adequate, predictable and reliable ratio frequency spectrum.

We need to provide it certainty so that the industry can attract investment and continue innovating.

The United States currently has the best aerospace industry in the world.

Thank you, and I move to strike the last word.

I'm grateful the sponsors included two provisions I asked for in the Manager's Amendment.

This is well past the 120-day deadline currently required in statute because there is no mechanism to enforce any timeline.

I hope our Committee continues to also have the discussion on space traffic management.

To try to ram that through at this point is a real mistake and is in contrast to actually having some regular order.

The moniker, the name of this bill, the HONEST Act, really should be the Dishonest Act because it dishonestly describes what's going on in the Environmental Protection Agency

That amendment helped what we had last year, which was the Secret Science bill, but that was a lousy bill then and this is still a lousy bill now

``The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. ``No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.''

But I still think you're a bank. And we treat banks differently than we treat grocery stores, because you're the heart of the financial system.

You have to stop saying, 'Our stores generate more deposits than our competitors.' That creates the wrong culture.

The goal should be, if your customer needs something, try to help them.

I've never, ever in my life referred to my branch bank in Applewood, Colorado, as a store.

I look at banks as something different. We came in with $800 billion to save the banking system when it was collapsing because it's something different.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We certainly aren't there, and since the chairman is here, he knows this subject, it is marijuana and banking.

I just want to thank you for your part in doing that, because it is been a long, long road.

When executives enable fraud there should be consequences.

I think it is this single-minded pursuit of just shareholder value that probably leads to problems like this.