The second amendment deals with cybersecurity standards. At the end of 2016, the DOD issued important updated cybersecurity standards for defense contractors. Companies must implement these new standards by January 1, 2018. However, I have…

I want to start off by thanking the chair and ranking member for supporting these two amendments, one in this bloc, one in the next bloc. The first amendment will authorize the Hacking for Defense, or H4D, Program. This is an innovative…

how we can--and I've certainly seen this in my departments, the new technology and the real promise of both making safer communities but making life easier for our firefighters.

I want to echo the comments of my fellow Ranking Member, Mr. Veasey, by expressing my concern about the Trump Administration's proposed budget cuts to materials R&D across the science agencies.

The proposed 11 percent cut at NSF, the 13 percent cut to the labs at NIST, and the even more draconian cuts at DOE must not be enacted.

I think we need to fight here in Congress to make sure that we don't defund these Energy Innovation Hubs.

Unfortunately, as the Office of Science and Technology Policy detailed in a 2011 paper, the time it takes to move a newly discovered advanced material from the lab to the marketplace remains much too long.

I want to thank Mr. Krishnamoorthi for all his work on this bill, and I thank the Republicans for their work. It is a good, bipartisan bill. It is something that America needs to help strengthen our economy and help strengthen America's…

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his great work on this bill that would reauthorize a program that is critical to both American workers and businesses, and the future of our American economy. I am continuously hearing from…

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.

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.

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 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.

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

I want to say, first of all, it is an honor to follow Mr. Norcross. As Mr. Boyle said, one of the very few in this body who is an actual member of the building and construction trades. I didn't intend to talk about this originally, but I…

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…

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.

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.

I want to recognize the 80 social scientists from the Consortium of Social Science Associations, who are visiting Washington, D.C., today, and to thank them for their hard work keeping our STEM enterprise strong. They are here to highlight…

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 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.