Bill Foster

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.

Congress has given you clear direction and funding to invest in multiple routes to mass production, for multiple, plausible vaccine candidates in advance of their testing and approval, with the acknowledgement that much of that capacity…

I think it was Congressman Foster, but I want to make sure--can I go out and sort of find the best execution.

Retail investors don't care directly about payment for order flow. What they really care about are their total trading costs.

I am here today to request that the committee do two things. First, authorize $20 million for continued research on low-enriched uranium fuel for the pressurized water reactors for aircraft carriers and submarines; and, secondly, to…

This would be a body blow to the economies of all the States which border the Great Lakes.

I urge you to continue to prioritize and expand its investments in science.

I am requesting $101.2 million in funding for this upgrade.

The simplest and most effective way in which government can strengthen industrial research is to support basic research and to develop scientific talent.

There appears to be a real appetite right now on both sides of the aisle to increase Federal funding for scientific research.

I remember during the financial crisis, you would wake up every day and check out the LIBOR spread to find out if the world was ending or not.

I, too, am one of those folks who believe that the Moderna vaccine, the Pfizer vaccine--I have looked very hard at the data on those. Those are safe.

I think that is a question that we should be asking the national--the National Teachers Association.

There just isn't correlation. Those statistics need to be checked and confirmed.

I still believe that is a strong position. The data from, particularly, our allies has shown that to be very true.

The dangers of politically allocated capital.

I'm particularly concerned about identity theft and synthetic identity fraud in the PPP and EIDL programs.

Well, thank you, and first, to my colleagues from Texas and to some of our witnesses, I feel your pain.

I commend it to my colleagues and their staff really because this is something that Congress and this Committee is going to have to come back to repeatedly.

I think there are lots of excellent ideas raised here today, we stand with you unified ready to try and implement some policy changes.

It takes 98 days to fully onboard a scientist into our Federal workforce right now, and compared with private sector... that is shocking to me.

I think that our Federal Government needs to be entrepreneurial in our approach to getting the best talent that we can.

Unfortunately, recent years have been difficult for career government scientists.

The scientists of the Federal Government are a pillar in some of America's greatest achievements.