I believe any reauthorization of NSF should provide sustainable funding to all scientific disciplines and not impose any unique restrictions or conditions on any specific type of research.

We have all seen the headlines about how our competitors are pouring resources into R&D.

If this trend continues, the long term effects on our scientific competitiveness will be catastrophic.

I have concerns with language in the bill that would make changes to the way that NSF conducts merit review of research proposals.

Obviously, everyone knows, we have gone through all these hearings all over the country, and the bottom line is how are we going to pay for this.

I want to thank all the witnesses for their testimony. This is fascinating to hear this and very troubling in many ways.

I look forward to hearing from the witnesses and hope that the testimony can get us thinking about how research can help us better tackle the increasing meth addiction problem plaguing our communities.

I think this is an area in which we can work again on a bipartisan basis for the health of our first responders who investigate meth labs and citizens in those communities.

In order to do our jobs and craft effective policies to combat meth addiction, we need to know more about the science behind addiction and effective prevention and treatment programs.

I believe it was spearheaded by the then-Chairman of the committee Bart Gordon from Tennessee.

In order to do our jobs and craft effective policy to combat meth addiction, we need to know more about the science behind addiction and effective prevention and treatment programs.