Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise as a Ph.D. physicist in Congress, who spent most of his career in the national laboratories of the Department of Energy, to share the story of a research engineer at a national lab who was recently fired without cause by President Trump and Elon Musk. This engineer's job was: Co-leading a project developing software for critical mineral and rare earth element extraction, while also playing a lead technical role in computer modeling of desalination and water treatment processes and supporting U.S. industrial partners to use these tools to deploy and modernize their systems. Mr. Speaker, our country cannot afford to lose the talent of civic- minded scientists like this. Moreover, if Donald Trump thinks that he is going to strike a deal with Ukraine on rare earth minerals, then he is going to need real experts in our government on critical mineral extraction. We don't get that by firing them. ____________________”