I'd like to express my strong support for H.R. 4377, the Accelerating American Leadership in Science Act.

This legislation would make it easier to access the labs for the general public.

Thank you, Chairman, for this markup today and for all your help on this.

I'd also like to thank my colleague from Colorado, Mr. Perlmutter, for his help on this bipartisan legislation.

I want to thank this bill's sponsors, Rep. Randy Hultgren and Rep. Bill Foster, for their long-standing support of basic research.

It is so good to be with all of you. I especially want to thank our wonderful Cochairmen, Congressman Smith and Senator Rubio, two people who could not be more passionate and more effective at fighting for the value of every single person…

My hope, my prayer, my commitment is to do everything that I can to make sure that we have that kind of accountability and that we are holding other nations accountable; that we are doing all that we can to say that every person deserves…

I do look towards these hearings and the requests that we make to agencies as our ability to be educated.

Again, both sides of the aisle have grave concern of negative impacts, exactly the opposite of what you're trying to accomplish.

This isn't a Republican issue, it's not a Democratic issue. It was split exactly 50/50, Members from Illinois on both sides of the aisle concerned about that.

Such a result would be bad for the State of Illinois and devastating for the communities in which they operate.