Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to cosponsor H.R. 874, the American Super Computing Leadership Act. This is bipartisan legislation that I have had the pleasure of working on with my colleague, Mr. Hultgren, as well as others from both sides of the aisle in developing, including, as the chairman said, Mr. Swalwell, Ms. Bonamici, and Ms. Esty. This bill would authorize an exascale computing program to ensure that the fastest computers in the world, as well as their software and algorithms, which will help us use these machines to the maximum efficiency, are developed here in the United States. The term ``exascale'' is often used to refer to the next generation of supercomputers in general and is used interchangeably with ``extreme scale.'' This term is often applied to computing systems that are capable of carrying out a million trillion operations per second. That rate is approximately 50 times faster than the current fastest computer in the world. Through this legislation, the Secretary of Energy would be empowered to significantly increase the computing power that is accessible to scientists from Federal agencies as well as industry and academia. These investments would have a wide range of impacts by giving the Nation's best scientists the resources and support they need to flourish. Mr.…”