"I'm proud to say that the bipartisan appropriations agreement signed into law in December provided robust funding for EERE in spite of that."
"Unfortunately, the budget proposed by the Trump Administration this past year sought to reduce EERE's R&D funding by more than 80%."
"I applaud the Administration's decision to look take a dynamic look at where funding is most needed and will yield the highest gains."
"We should be doing everything we can to ensure that EERE has the staff it needs to administer and oversee federally funded research as effectively and efficiently as possible."
"I look forward to hearing from Assistant Secretary Daniel Simmons on the programs within EERE that are doing just that."
"I'm one of the sponsors of the Stronger Patents Act of 2019, that's an effort to move the needle back in terms of increasing the power of patent holders over the system integrators."
"My advice would be, let's focus on the prize, and the prize is American competitiveness competing against China in the technology areas that I've identified."
"I want to thank the witnesses, though I have to say the most exciting thing that I heard was a statement from my colleague, the Ranking Member Mr. Lucas, that he was strongly in favor of doubling the ..."
"I understand that you wanted to bring clarity and simplification to CRA evaluations, and I appreciate that."
"Things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"One of the simple principles that you might consider adding to these is to reward the number of people helped."
"Well, thank you, Chairwoman Fletcher, Ranking Member Weber, and Dr. Fall for joining us today."