the Trump budget proposes to eliminate it.

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.

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 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.

Thank you, Chairman Weber and Chairwoman Comstock, for holding this hearing on federal investments in materials science research.

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

Hopefully we will see robust funding for these programs.

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.

I express my disappointment in the Administration's budget proposal for NIST.

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