Dan Lipinski

I want to emphasize that, and those issues that you raised, Dr. Liu, are very critical, and we need to make sure we are not only looking on those, but acting on those.

I think it's critically important that social science is not left behind when it comes to being funded.

Can you help me understand and this Committee understand why, if energy storage is indeed the Holy Grail of technology, we have a budget that drastically defunds our commitment to deploy the energy storage that we need?

Your budget, to its credit, increases the energy storage R&D supported by the Office of Electricity by 5 percent.

I am delighted to hear you describe energy storage as the Holy Grail of energy.

I introduced the Growing Artificial Intelligence Through Research Act, which in part ensures that they're an essential coordinating entity.

Obviously, safety is what is most important here, the safety of the workers, safety of communities that rail traffic flows through.

Expanding workforce development programs is one of my priorities as we head towards surface transportation reauthorization.

I want to make sure that we keep in mind that technology will not replace the necessity for workers.

I am once again a supporter of the two-person crew bill, because it is imperative that our trains remain safe as the industry changes.

I thank Chairman Visclosky for his work on this appropriations bill and for working with me on this amendment. America's strength and entrepreneurship and innovation, we need to use those to protect our Nation in a rapidly evolving threat…

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If we're able to sign this legislation into law, then supercomputers would be used to analyze VA health data and look for patterns that will help improve the medical treatments for our heart disease, traumatic brain injury, and cancer.

We can't turn a blind eye to this threat and assume that CRRC or China will continue to play by the rules.

The entry of Chinese State Owned Enterprises into this country is a huge threat to America's economic livelihood and national security.

We need to understand what a threat this is and do something about it.

It seems that something went wrong with the FAA's safety certification of the 737 MAX, and 346 people died.

We need to get to the bottom of what happened, so we can do whatever we can to ensure the safety of air passengers.

I think it's really important that we do what we can to help get the great work... into new products and services.

Section 130 has been a successful 30 year effort to protect motorists and prevent grade crossing accidents.

I respectfully request that the Committee bear these three priorities in mind when determining an appropriate course of action that promotes sustainability for our communities and our environment.

One death is one too many.

I think we could all agree that taking 8-plus years to implement important safety regulations is a problem.

We have a long tradition of bipartisanship and I look forward to continuing that tradition.

I've been a longtime supporter of advanced manufacturing and also a longtime advocate for entrepreneur-in-training, mentorship training programs like I-Corps and Hacking for Defense.