Bill Foster

The obvious solution to that's to bury power lines, and that is hellishly expensive presently.

It would not have been possible to meet John Kennedy's goal of landing within the decade.

Without it, the Saturn booster would have to be two times bigger or you'd need multiple of them.

What we don't have is a national metric which looks at the return on investment in a geographically neutral place

I think if you Google my name along with Greenland, you're led to a video of a previous witness...

A newly released report from the London School of Economics examined instances of legal action on climate change for a 30-year period, ending this year.

If we can get the cost down to low Earth orbit and make it more regular, possibly through aeronautic solutions, and I think it opens up tremendous things for space exploration as well.

I have expressed the opinion in this room many times that I think that NASA doesn't spend enough on potentially transformative technologies to get things into low-Earth orbit for cheap.

Congressman Ed Perlmutter will enthusiastically host a visit to the Denver area and western labs.

I'll be leading as large a congressional delegation as I can corral.

I think we will find a solution to the opioid epidemic that we have in this country.

If we start using high-enriched uranium, weapons-grade uranium in applications where it is not strictly needed... it will be a disaster for nonproliferation and national security.

One of the things that they have done at their synchrotron light source is to use them to directly image the molecules that are involved in opioid receptors in the brain.

Just trying to understand the fundamental physics of combustion is a field which will have a huge benefit because, as I'm sure has been mentioned a multiple times, we're not going to stop burning fossil fuels anytime soon.

You know, both Congress and you, you know, have to choose the most promising technologies to put your money on

I'd also like to second the Ranking Member's endorsement of R&D into using supercritical CO2 as the working fluid for a high-temperature, high-Carnot efficiency method of generating electricity.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I guess as one of those Members who did visit NETL just a few weeks ago, you know, it's just amazing.

I urge my colleagues to support this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Foster). The question was taken; and the Acting Chair…

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The opioid epidemic has claimed too many lives and torn apart too many families for us to be using anything but the most effective treatments. It is past time that we stop treating opioid addiction as a moral failing and start treating it…

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I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 164, beginning at line 13, strike section 510. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 431, the…

You know, this is an important subject. Throughout my 25-year career in physics, our field always struggled with gender diversity.

Yes. And are you optimistic that you'll be able to come up with standardized reporting criteria so we'll actually be able to look across all the different agencies and see if there is potentially a cultural problem in one of the other…