Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, before I wrap up on the bill we are debating right now, I just wanted to thank Chairman Smith for his work on this, along with Ranking Member Johnson. Working together, we were able to get these bills done here on the floor tonight. I know that tomorrow we will have a little bit more of a contentious debate on a bill coming out of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee; but I just wanted to, again, commend the chairman and Ranking Member Johnson for our work together on these bills. We know there are important things that we can get done and we need to get done and will be very helpful to our Nation, and I am glad that we were able to do those things on these bills that we have brought forward here tonight, a good bipartisan mix of bills showing bipartisan cooperation. Mr. Speaker, I want to conclude by asking my colleagues to support H.R. 1158, the Department of Energy Laboratory Modernization and Technology Transfer Act. I want to thank Mr. Hultgren and Mr. Perlmutter for their work on this bill. I think there are many things that we can't even see right now that will come out of this, but I am certain that our national labs and the great value that they are to our Nation will continue, and this will allow them to continue to not only do their research, but to do an even better job of producing new technologies that will be a great benefit to all of us. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.”