Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. And, Director, thank you for joining us today. It is an honor to have you.

Can you discuss what lessons the National Science Foundation has learned over the last year, in leveraging research and development during this crisis to help bring the virus under control?

I understand that it does exist in the Congress presently, if requested, and this would make it more of a mandatory thing.

Earlier this summer, Americans from big cities and small towns across our country took to the streets to peacefully protest racial injustice in the largest demonstrations in American history.

Thank you very much, Madam Chair. And thank you all for being here today. We appreciate your service to our country.

We have almost 22 million citizens. But Florida ranks 14th in total guardsmen and 49th in guardsmen per State resident.

How can I go back to my constituents in Florida and tell them that this rule is supposed to protect their health and the environment when the EPA itself admits that the rule will cause over 1,000 deaths and at best marginally reduce…

As a Floridian, space exploration both interests and excites me. It is part of our state's culture and our economy.

Alton Road will flood when it's not raining.

And I remember President Obama visiting south Florida and would talk about that example of, you know, the climate changing, the rising sea level.

I live in St. Petersburg, Florida--it's on the west coast--and have lived there since 1960.