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

I think it is an important context, the position that the airlines are in right now, financially.

The State of Illinois has 36 short line railroads, 2,600 miles of short line track.

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.

the impact that we see from research in the social and behavioral sciences--I know that's something, as you know, that I have often talked about here because the importance--even though it's a very small part of the NSF budget.

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

I'm confident that NSF will take the necessary steps to implement the policy changes in the law.

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.

Funding for NSF has not been what I would like to have seen in recent years.

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