Since the beginning of the pandemic I have pushed for greater flexibility and speed in the way that we research and authorize treatments, as free as possible from political interference.

Last year, Senator Lujan and I introduced the Restore and Modernization Our National Labs Act, which authorizes $30.5 billion in funding for the National Laboratories to address this critical shovel-ready backlog of overdue infrastructure…

We've also been very encouraged recently to hear President Biden lament the fact that the R&D intensity, the fraction of GDP (gross domestic product) that we devote to R&D has dropped precipitously from its historic levels.

But if they had been required to, OK, fine, you applied, get out your cell phone, prove you are who you say you are, and use that single identifier.

I've been struck in all of your testimony how central identity fraud and particularly online identify fraud is to the money that the taxpayers lost on this.

standardization of the data would be incredibly helpful for the purpose of our work in identifying where fraud has occurred.

I believe that we have a good tool to prevent identity fraud there in the form of the REAL ID-compliant ID card.

I'd like to also point out that there is an Act that I am sponsoring called the Improving Digital Identity Act of 2021.

There has been some discussion here about what problem this might be solving.

One of the biggest factors pulling women out of the work force during the pandemic was needing to care for ill or loved ones or children learning from home.

Last year, I introduced the Pandemic Leave Extension Act, which would extend FFCRA's paid leave requirement until the end of the public health emergency.

I share my Republican colleague's enthusiasm for the role of small business, and I hope that we can both applaud, on a bipartisan basis, the record number of startups that are happening under President Biden's economic recovery.

Developing energy storage technology will be critical as greener but more intermittent sources like wind and solar become a larger part of our generation mix.

Perhaps the most disturbing thing that I have heard is the idea that to access your own money, you need to get some identity, some globalist-conforming identity stamp, and then everything that you want to do is tracked and monitored.

Is this viewed as similar to cash in that if you lose your device, you are out of luck?

We do not expect people to keep their life savings in ECASH.

Thank you, Representative Foster, and thank you, Chairman Lynch.

I urge you to include $20 million to continue this R&D on LEU fuel.

I think that the way that we protect our way of life is by being less like China and more like America, because this is exactly what China is in the process of implementing.

if we don't allocate enough money, we're going to have a second-rate science program and some projects that will fail for sure to deliver themselves on time and on budget.

our facilities, our labs really are the jewels in the crown, and we have to make sure that they stay that way.

show some--well, if not some stiffness of spine, some--at least some viscosity of spine in these negotiations with the Administration.

As part of our work on the Artificial Intelligence Task Force, we have been wrestling with what is sometimes referred to as the accuracy-fairness tradeoff.

the budget here is not adequate.

Should they be the free democracies of the world, which would be my preference.