If you are stealing my intellectual property today, I might not be able to stop you because I can't get injunctive relief.
Bill Foster
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Bill Foster is an American businessman and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 11th congressional district, a position he has held since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Foster has focused on issues such as science, technology, and economic development during his tenure in Congress. He has a background in physics and has worked in the private sector, including founding a successful technology company.
There's a big NIMBY (not in my back yard) difficulty that's much worse as you approach cities, but bad probably everywhere.
I would like to also thank you, as the co-Chair of the Congressional Blockchain Caucus.
We are going to have to be absolutely dependent on the fact that every single wallet is in a regulatory regime that we trust, is that right?
I would like to also mention cybersecurity. One of the main jobs of FSOC is to oversee cybersecurity at systemically important firms.
I think there's a good chance that it's actually the, you know, one of those rare combinations of things that is going to have a chance at getting through the legislative graveyard.
The obvious solution to that's to bury power lines, and that is hellishly expensive presently.
Without it, the Saturn booster would have to be two times bigger or you'd need multiple of them.
It would not have been possible to meet John Kennedy's goal of landing within the decade.
I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise today as the only Ph.D. physicist in the U.S. Congress. During my career, I have designed and led the construction of giant particle accelerators and other nuclear equipment, led…
I think if you Google my name along with Greenland, you're led to a video of a previous witness...
what we don't have is a national metric which looks at the return on investment in a geographically neutral place
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.
FinCEN's mission is critical to our national and economic security. It is charged with safeguarding the financial system from illicit use and combating money laundering. Our amendment included in this en bloc directs FinCEN and its agency…
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.
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.
I thank the chair for yielding. My amendment provides direction to do everything possible to fix the indefensible disparity between States in the per capita allocation of transportation funding through the Highway Trust Fund. Under the…
I think we will find a solution to the opioid epidemic that we have in this country.
Congressman Ed Perlmutter will enthusiastically host a visit to the Denver area and western labs.
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.
I thank my colleagues for supporting en bloc No. 2, which included two of my amendments. The first amendment directs NASA to work toward the development of a low-enriched uranium space power reactor. NASA has been developing a low-enriched…
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.
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.





