I think I can speak for the entire delegation from Illinois, that that currency must be named for Abraham Lincoln.

Other provisions in this bill will simply make our capital markets work better. I applaud the bipartisanship of the ranking member and the chairman, and I look forward to further improvements in the regulatory landscape as our markets…

I think it is more pressing than now that we actually have a response in place, ready to go, if and when any one of those countries, in particular China, resumes currency manipulation.

the risk of anything of a resumption of significant currency manipulation has certainly gone up because of the Republican tariffs.

I thank Ranking Member Waters for yielding. I want to begin by recognizing the good work of the ranking member and the chairman and their staffs in compiling this capital formation package. I want to compliment the legislative skill shown…

that is no longer true in the Trump era that things like the massive tax cut for the wealthy and the deficit spending have driven inflation more than they have driven wages.

I am concerned that if a significant central bank could issue a digital currency, that it would have the potential to supplant the United States dollar now.

Obviously, President Trump has recklessly now begun a trade war with many of our trading partners, particularly with China.

Even today, rogue regimes and clandestine organizations continue to exhibit the ambition to acquire materials and technologies that can be used to build weapons of mass destruction.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you to our witnesses.

For nearly a generation, nuclear weapons have threatened our national security and global safety because of their capability to threaten the existence of mankind.

Today, the subcommittee is going to examine strategies to disrupt the financing and procurement of weapons of mass destruction.

I think this all comes down to technical feasibility. Whenever you are thinking of how to spend taxpayer money, you must make a judgment call as to what things are just way out there and are not going to happen in our lifetimes, and things…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

My straightforward amendment would prohibit the misguided use of taxpayer dollars to attempt to develop a space- based missile defense intercept layer. As the Chair knows, the Senate-passed version of the National Defense Authorization Act…

I spent most of my career as an energy particle physicist and accelerator designer, designing and building complex technical systems. Nothing is less productive as a use of taxpayer money than designing and building a system, attempting to…

How much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has 30 seconds remaining.

I thank the gentleman from Indiana for yielding. As the only Ph.D. physicist in Congress, I would like to take a moment to highlight the risks of underfunding both nuclear nonproliferation and detection. When discussing the dangers of…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Illinois will be postponed. {time} 1815

I am an original cosponsor of a bill introduced earlier this year titled the AI JOBS Act of 2018 to help our workplace prepare for the ways AI will shape the economy of the future.

it's pretty clear that our dominance in AI is due to immigrants, okay?

You know, in Congress I'm the co-Chair of the New Democrats Coalition on the Future of Work Task Force where we have been trying to think through what this means for the workplace of the future.

I've been very involved in Congress in trying to resurrect something called the Office of Technology Assessment.

And also, I will be asking for the record--I guess you may not have to respond right now--where the best sources of information on how quickly this will be coming at us.

I understand the Administration has announced plans to expand its capacity for holding children who have been separated from their parents in facilities sometimes known as 'baby jails'.