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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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'm also pleased to welcome Ranking Member Obernolte to the Subcommittee. I look forward to working together in support of America's scientific community.

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.

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.

The failure to do so is a failure to put service to students over control by the unions and selfish politicians.

I'm hopeful that the Biden administration will respond soon to our letter.

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

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

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