Bill Foster

I have personally found the DOE extremely supportive in responding to Member requests for detailed briefings on this.

As the only Ph.D. scientist in Congress, I'm probably more excited about this than most others who've come to hear this today.

We have opened a new window onto the universe and we have verified that our new telescope is working and now the fun begins.

This is a discovery that will live on in the science textbooks forever.

When something happens, Congress has to have a more mature reaction.

I think it's useful to segment the truly unique things we do.

There are bad apples everywhere-someone stole some computers, and there was a story about it.

I resonate very strongly with the comments you've made on the risks of excessive risk aversion.

I view the European solution, the CoCo mechanism, as superior because it warns the banks when they are in danger of being--

The title of the hearing is that the Power Plan will shut down power plants.

What I'm fishing for is, what is the balance of, you know, human suffering and death versus economic goals?

I was wondering just in general, you know, if you for whatever philosophical approach to this you take, how would you calculate the economically optimum number of people to die in Ohio each year?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We are living through the aftermath of a disaster caused by the complete failure of Republican monetary, fiscal, and regulatory policy.

The House and Senate will soon go to conference on a customs bill that was part of a trade package that was mostly passed into law last month.

Thank you, and I'd like to thank the whole Research and Technology Subcommittee, including the Chair, Congresswoman Comstock, and Ranking Member Lipinski for allowing me to join you here today.

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. Amendment Offered by Mr. Goodlatte

I thank my colleague from New Jersey. Madam Chair, I urge my colleagues to support this bipartisan amendment. I yield back the balance of my time.

I have an amendment at the desk, offered jointly with the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Garrett), my colleague. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short…

It is interesting to look at the trend here that you see, for example, in the Kennedy Administration, we had the strongest period of job growth in our country's history.

Corporal Sara Abigail Medina, Aurora, Illinois, Illinois' 11th Congressional District.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee The Acting CHAIR. It…

Let's--one sort of big picture question I have is that there are a number of ways that we invest money.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I appreciate the opportunity to attend this, despite not actually being formally on this Subcommittee.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 25, line 5, after the dollar amount insert ``(increased by $239,749,000)''. Page 29, line 2, after the dollar amount…