On the recordDecember 5, 2016
I wish to remind my colleague, who is also the chairman of the Appropriations Energy Subcommittee that controls the exascale funding, one of the most complicated things we can face in our world is biological systems when we look at the new Aurora computer that is going to be built in the Argonne National Laboratories. I know that at Oak Ridge, we have exascale computers. My goal is to make sure we are always way ahead of the Chinese. In the case of Aurora, we now have $165 million to make sure that we have a computer that is far faster than the computer in China. With that, we will be able to model proteins themselves to make sure we make these advances much faster. My hope is that we will be stunned at how much biological work is being done at the Oak Ridge lab with their leading computer to make sure we accelerate progress on this. Let me say one thing about the work of the Senator. Every piece of legislation that he touches goes through by a couple hundred votes. When we see Lamar take over a bill, we know it is going to be going through on a big walloping. He got a huge vote in the Senate, and I hope he gets a big vote again. Everything he touches turns to gold, and we cannot have a better friend in medical care than we have in Lamar Alexander.
