Bill Foster

Well, it's a threat there that's all the time.

I have introduced legislation to try to fix that. And I look forward to your support.

I think ultimately we have to find some way to gently interfere with the workings of the free market here.

No, the Chinese threat. They have the----

I was proud to introduce, this session of Congress, H.R. 4623, the Keep STEM Talent Act of 2019.

I think that is a fundamental necessity in a modern economy, and I think there is an essential job for the Federal Government to provision that basic identity.

I believe that we need to give FSOC and the OFR the funding and personnel they need to carry out what I regard as their very important missions.

Do you really think that it is a wise idea to cut the FSOC and OFR staff levels in half?

I think it is short-sighted to cut back those essential functions.

I think we should at least scale our salaries with, say, the median income in the United States.

I've been working very hard with a number of my colleagues to try to get the OTA resurrected.

I just want to thank the Chair and all the witnesses for their engagement in this.

We have to be very careful that this is going to be politically viable because there are real risks that one party or the other will get very angry when it's pointed out that their dreams are not reality.

We've now spent more in absolute dollars on the missile-defense program than we've spent in absolute dollars on the Apollo program.

If any of us ran for reelection with a platform of doubling staff salaries, I don't think we would last very long

We have to do something somehow to figure out how to raise the level of staff salaries

I've been a longtime advocate of the reinstatement of the OTA as a bipartisan, independent source of sound technical and scientific analysis.

I've long been a champion of bolstering the science and technology capacity of Congress from both Members and staff.

I'm proud to have introduced what's called the Better Energy Storage Technology Act (BEST Act), which now has 38 bipartisan co-sponsors.

Maybe I'll just close with a pitch for the repeal of the unique patient identifier ban that the medical world has been living under

There's this incredible observation that if you're a billionaire, you cannot get a better smartphone.

Transportation assistance seems like a real possibility here.

So there could be a factor of four reduction in----

Transportation as a service delivered at very low cost to everyone would be a tremendous equalizer.

I think everyone is worried that technology is going to drive even more inequality in wealth.