The issue we had is we did not have a unique, legally traceable identity for all qualifying citizens in the United States.

If you are going to prevent digital dollars from being used for ransomware, money laundering, child trafficking, terrorism, you name it, is there any alternative to having a secure and legally traceable digital identity for all…

There has to be a mechanism to unmask participants when malfeasance is suspected.

I think that at last count, the Republican talking number was $65 billion that should be dedicated to this.

The legislation that he and Congressmen Katko, Langevin, and Loudermilk introduced 2 weeks ago, the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2021, is the single best way for government to begin to address the inadequacies of America's identity…

I commend him and my other colleagues for their work on this thoughtful legislation.

The Democrat counteroffer was $100 billion.

One of the good things the Fed has been doing for the last several years is instead of just publishing household net worth as if there was only one consumer in the country, actually publishing it by wealth slices.

It's time to get the shot here. You know, vaccines are a public health issue, and, as everyone has mentioned, they are not and should not be a partisan issue.

Just this morning, my colleague on this committee, Dr. Miller-Meeks, and I published a joint op-ed in USA Today urging all Americans to get vaccinated.

Today we are considering H.R. 2225, the NSF for the Future Act; and H.R. 3593, the DOE Science for the Future Act. Both are tributes to the thoughtful bipartisanship of the leadership and the staff of the Science, Space, and Technology…

It's really a perfect example, you know, the research you cited, of why this Committee is committed on a bipartisan basis to doubling DOE's budget across the full range of its mission.

The convergence of NASA and the commercial reactor world is a very positive trend that we should encourage.

These hearings are going to be science based.

It's important for our economic recovery as well as planning to respond to China, frankly, on central bank digital currencies.

I guess I'm best known around here as being the, you know, the Ph.D. physicist in Congress, but I'm also a businessman who's actually accomplished pretty much exactly what we're all struggling to mass produce here.

I represented, for years, extremely rural areas, and it was--you know, it's just tough sledding trying to get companies with tech needs to move into those extremely rural areas.

Over the last decade we saw Paul Ryan budgets proposing 17 percent cuts to science.

There have been numerous proposals to permanently repeal this debt limit rule that triggers the automatic default by Members on both sides of the aisle.

I think we need one of these red-flag rules that removes a gun from Congress' hands.

Many of you were probably on shift 10 years ago during the Tea Party default crisis of 2011 when the Federal debt suffered a ratings downgrade that was caused when newly-elected Republicans threatened to default on the U.S. debt by…

There are troubling signs politically that we may be headed for another default crisis.

Supply chain attacks are harder to detect, to prevent, and to remediate than traditional malware.

I look forward to hearing today about the likely effectiveness of this Executive order.

I--well, first off, for those of you that don't know me, I'm Congress's Ph.D. physicist and also the--Congress's AI programmer.