Bill Foster

Thank you for your service. I know it's--you know, it's tough.

We're talking about spending, you know, 1/10,000 of the increase in, you know, the U.S. wealth.

Since the economic recovery started, house--the net worth of Americans has gone up by $45 trillion.

I think this will be tremendously damaging, including to NIF.

I just want to encourage you that there is a bipartisan consensus that could be assembled to permanently get rid of it.

Over time, both parties have been guilty of abusing and weaponizing the debt limit.

At some point, I think everyone should step back.

I did not support the debt limit as a mechanism for controlling spending, which is something I agree.

I think this is--actually, it really comes from the Peterson Institute, the thought behind it. And when I saw this, I just thought this is something we can and should do.

We have been calling it out for decades, all right? Calling it out, jawboning doesn't work.

I have long viewed that the failure of free trade deals to address currency manipulation was probably their most significant shortcoming and the major reason I haven't supported them.

During the Obama recovery the stock market tripled, household net worth nearly doubled, unemployment was cut in half, trade deficits were reduced, and inflation was kept low.

The reaction to a default, a potential default, has been huge.

Thanks also for your commitment to complete the construction of the LBNF DUNE neutrino initiative at Fermilab.

Which will be the world leader and should reclaim, you know, something in an area where frankly it's under threat from China.

This is crucial to, you know, the continuing development there.

I was impressed actually by the bipartisan support for advanced battery development.

I was really struck with his genuine enthusiasm, you know, for the science they do and his willingness to advocate for the science program.

I sometimes introduce myself as saying I represent 100 percent of the strategic reserve of physicists in the United States Congress.

At this point I have no further speakers, so I would like to close with a few words here. This bipartisan bill will increase options for investors and savers while ensuring that the protections appropriate to a WKSI are applied to…

One of the large cost drivers in any of this sort of project is the high level specification on the probability of loss of crew.

One of the reasons that we have to depend on foreign capital for things like venture capital is that, when you have a really good invention, like Microsoft Word, and then find that it gets pirated in other countries, you don't have the…

This has been an ongoing crisis for more than a generation.

I just want to thank you and, I guess, apologize for the attention deficit disorder of Congress on this sort of issue.

We're in a tough situation right now because we have an Administration that's done things like reject the Paris agreement.