This Administration will ensure that America remains at the epicenter of the ongoing revolution in scientific research and technological innovation.

There was a malfunction on reentry on one of the Soyuz. Is that problem corrected, in your opinion?

the President's budget cuts $200 million from the 2010 levels across the Federal Government in STEM education.

Are there other emerging technologies that NIST should be working on with industry to develop interoperable standards?

I hear the Secretary of Education saying this all along.

A lot of our technological dominance today is a result of investments in research and technology.

If we are cutting out the R&D, you are starting to eat your seed corn so that you don't have a crop to plant for next year.

Well, fine but I bring it---- to your attention, because it has been the conventional wisdom of what--and talked about in the press, what you just said and what we are told in practice is exactly the opposite.

the President's budget has a 3.8 percent increase for STEM education, in NSF.

I just want to say this. We had talked earlier about the need for clean energy, therefore the reduction of our dependence particularly on foreign oil.

the President is requesting $24 million for this Interoperability Standards for Emerging Technologies

I think energy already provides us a rich array of examples in that domain.