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.

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

First, I am a proud cosponsor of Representative Lipinski's amendment, which would direct an increase of $15 million to Argonne National Laboratory's Leadership Computing Facility. The ALCF is a national scientific user facility that…

I thank the chairwoman for yielding. My amendment will direct the State Department to use $10 million from the NADR account to take advantage of the opportunity to advance U.S. diplomatic goals in the Middle East through scientific…

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 90, line 6, after the first dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $1,000,000)''. Page 93, line 20, after…

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 27, line 20, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $1)''. Page 27, line 20, after the dollar…

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…

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 66, line 14, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $1)''. Page 66, line 14, after the dollar…

My amendment would increase the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority account by $1 million to support increased R&D for biosecurity. As the only Ph.D. physicist in Congress, I feel a special responsibility to speak out on…

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…

This bipartisan amendment, offered by myself and the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kelly), would strike section 510, which bans HHS from adopting standards for a unique patient identifier that would allow patients to be uniquely…

I would like to thank Congressman Andy Kim for cosponsoring this amendment. This simple amendment would add and remove $1 from the substance abuse treatment fund, which we intend as a signal that HHS should prioritize opioid treatment…

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…

My amendment highlights the need to think about our future workforce and how it will change because of technology, and to encourage the Bureau of Labor Statistics to accept a wider and more forward-looking range of inputs into its range of…

One thing that we have recommended in our report as a potential congressional action is that we really do away with confidentiality statements because this is at the heart of the problem.

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…

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

Should Congress consider legislation, such as the discussion draft that I am cosponsoring and intend to introduce, to ensure that the OFR has independent and sufficient funding to gather data on leveraged lending and CLO markets and other…

Or we could just send--in the case of Asian carp, just send the bill for all of this to Arkansas, which, in their wisdom, introduced this into ponds that flooded.

It's now up to Congress to authorize funding for the Army Corps to go ahead with this plan.

How about the idea that the OFR or the various Federal financial regulators periodically stress-test certain non-bank markets, such as those for CLOs or complex asset-backed securities?

I hope that my Republican and Democratic colleagues come together to vote for the WRDA bill to prevent this catastrophe.

Asian carp have already wreaked environmental havoc up and down the Mississippi River watershed.

Do you agree that the Office of Financial Research needs to be well-funded to fulfill its purpose to collect and analyze information about opaque markets such as leveraged lending or CLOs?

I hope you also look at countermeasures, and research into countermeasures.