The Community Reinvestment Act is heralded as one of the foundational civil rights acts of the last century.

I strongly identify with that goal and believe that our goals of equality in the financial services as well as other objectives are best pursued by ensuring that our free market systems are efficient.

Yes, back in roughly 2010 China cut back the rare-earths for magnet purposes to Japan as some--I can't remember what they were fighting about, but it was----

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I thank Chairman Takano, Ranking Member Roe, and members of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs for their steadfast commitment to the men and women of our armed services and for their work on H.R…

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

We've kept all those manufacturing jobs in the Midwest, which is something I'm really proud of.