I am excited to support what you are doing.

I appreciate the request for additional investment in ocean acidification and coastal resiliency.

I want to make sure if there are resource issues or other impediments to keeping them in the Tampa Bay Area where, geographically, I think it makes sense to keep them both for your workforce as well as for the missions that they run.

my district, in particular, it is one county, it is a peninsula, we are ground zero for everything from flood insurance to other issues related to being essentially at sea level.

But to know that there is basic science research in that field is, frankly, very encouraging for a community that is coastal.

much of what is debated regarding climate change, and what is the appropriate response to that, ultimately that response ends up resting on some very small municipalities and local jurisdictions.

Kevin McCarthy just like John Boehner did, put the country and the Congress and the conference before his own interest. It was an honorable thing to do. I think he recognized and shared with the conference that he was afraid his candidacy…

I know the good work that they do. I know the innovation that they bring to the portfolio.

My request to the committee today, though, is that the Rapid Innovation Award money that was awarded in the last 18 months actually was awarded to transition this technology to LCS.

I think continued investment, robust investment in SOCOM S&T is critical to that.

I would ask for your consideration of that, as well as the continued investment in medical research that uniquely comes through this committee.