Political Quotes

“I want to give a sincere thank-you to our distinguished chairman, Mr. Smith--the chairman of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology--for his work in this Congress and in past Congresses in bringing this bipartisan package of legislation to the floor. I also thank my good friend and colleague Congressman Perlmutter from Colorado, who has been just an active joint member in moving this forward. I am so grateful for his efforts and his work. Madam Speaker, the DOE Research and Innovation Act contains a number of bipartisan provisions that put in place clear research and development priorities so that Americans can maintain their leadership position on the world stage and continue attracting the best and the brightest to the only place they can do their work. While I have the pleasure of representing Fermilab, our Nation's only dedicated high energy physics laboratory, I have also had the opportunity to visit with and to meet researchers from across the Nation who rely on our national laboratory system to do their work. More than 30,000 researchers a year visit the DOE user facilities, such as the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory, just outside my district. These facilities are normally operating 24/7, with researchers blocking off time--sometimes just minutes--to use equipment that no one university or business could build and maintain on its own. This is why our national labs are truly the crown jewel in our research ecosystem.…”