Bill Foster

We must ensure that cities and states have the resources they need to carry out, you know, the basic steps to protect the health of voters and election workers.

We strongly urge Congress to provide that $3.6 billion so that no state can point to the lack of resources as a reason for disenfranchising voters this season.

The degree of increased risk from voting face-to-face depends on the level of community transmission, which, of course, depends on having competent national leadership.

Voter suppression is a problem that is orders-of-magnitude larger than any concerns over potentially fraudulent voting.

But I'm also a scientist. And it is a scientific fact that it will always be safer to vote by mail from home than to vote in person.

Also thank you, Mr. Secretary, for announcing yet another executive order. I'd like to talk about just how well some of your previous executive orders are working.

I would like to enter into the record a recent Wall Street Journal article on how the expiration of the $600 of expanded unemployment assistance has harmed Americans families.

Renewing unemployment insurance is important to, quote, "increase aggregate demand and boost spending in the economy."

This is not only wrong, Secretary Mnuchin, it is counterproductive if your goal is to actually fix the economy.

The job crisis that has caused--been caused by the administration's continuing failure to control the coronavirus is, unfortunately, far from over.

The failure to remove these benefits are causing our country to lose, and I quote, "about one years' worth of economic growth."

As a scientist, I think it's important to--for people to remember that just because people wish that something were true does not mean that science says it will be true.

I think that will be crucial.

I'd like to second the comments of my colleague, Representative Dr. Mark Green.

When a great scientific breakthrough reaches the public, that the proper credit is given, not to just those who show up and claim credit at press conferences.

The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the need for all stakeholders to work together in this fight.

I would also like to applaud the work of the Trump Administration in strengthening the Federal responsiveness to human trafficking.

Technology will play a critical role in combatting human trafficking in the future.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. My amendment directs the State Department to use $10 million from the NADR account to fund a major science facility in Jordan called SESAME, or the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and…

I was very interested to see that Representative Huizenga's proposal is effectively to subsidize labor.

Even before the COVID crisis, we found that workers, particularly unskilled workers, were having a harder and harder time competing with machines for their jobs.

I support your notion that community planning is a critical thing but also making sure that there are resources for community-based planning.

I spent probably 2 hours looking at those maps just almost trembling in rage at the fact that we could see, you know, maybe almost a century later the fingerprints of the redlining.

Environmental justice is an issue that hits very close to home with me.

I was very proud we got a strong bipartisan vote to repeal that ban in the House.