Dan Lipinski

I certainly would encourage that. And the President certainly talks a lot about Buy America, so I want to make sure that we are not in any way going backwards.

We are I think finally beginning to take cybersecurity more seriously here in Washington although there's much more that I think we need to do.

The threats are ever evolving, and our policies must be robust yet flexible enough to allow our defenses to evolve accordingly.

However, I believe there are lessons to be learned from successes as well as failures.

The good news is that U.S. government information systems were not negatively impacted by the WannaCry attack.

The concern that I have is that you start a race to the bottom in some ways...

The bottom line is that indirect cost reimbursement is essential to American universities' capacity to execute their research as well as train the next generation of scientists and engineers that our country needs.

I would encourage your Committee to consider ways of expanding the program both in terms of breadth across the country, but also in terms of time.

Thank you, Chairman. And I want to thank you, Chairwoman Comstock, and Ranking Member Murphy for holding this hearing to consider improvements to SBIR and STTR programs that help small-business innovators turn their ideas into market-ready…

We need to prod, regulate, or legislate, so that passengers are better protected.

I am hopeful that we can do the same thing on a new big $1 trillion or more than $1 trillion infrastructure plan.

As a scientist, I chose to be on the Science Committee, and this Subcommittee in particular, because of the key role I would be able to play with my colleagues in promoting and overseeing the National Science Foundation.

I was proud to help lead the effort to authorize the I-Corps program in the American Innovation and Competitiveness Act which passed last Congress and was signed into law in January.

I believe it's also important that Congress does not make the mistake of changing the funding priorities of the scientists at the NSF.

It doesn't make sense for eminent scientists to be spending 42 percent of their time complying with federal research regulations.

The federal government is uniquely positioned to fund world-class research, especially high-risk, high-reward research that leads to transformative discoveries and innovations that drive our economy forward.

I think it really undermines our Open Skies agreement in regard to maintaining labor standards.

This bill grants a limited exemption to the Federal pay scale to ensure that NIST will have access to the right people.

This really helps to put NIST in a good position to carry out its work through the end of Fiscal Year 2019.

It's going to be through strategic decisions like these that we will become the world's economic, scientific, and technical leader.

I support the amendment, and I thank the Chairman for working in a bipartisan way on this bill.

I would like to have seen an increase in funding for this program which this bill does not provide, but this bill is a step in the right direction.

I'm an ardent supporter of STEM education with two degrees I have in engineering.

The I-Corps program has been one of the most remarkable, maybe the most remarkable program that I have seen in my time here in Congress for what it's been able to do to tap into the great research that is being done at our--you know, at…

I fully support I-Corps and continue to be amazed by its success, but as with any taxpayer-funded program, I also support independent auditing to help us learn how to improve the program.