Quantum information science is a wide-ranging area of research that is expected to lay the groundwork for the next generation of computing.

They also have potential to address some of the world's most challenging problems and the United States is poised to be a leader in this development.

In February 2016, as the continued instances of mismanagement, willful neglect of resident safety, and both improper and illegal policies at the local level, HUD took into receivership the Alexander County Housing Authority, ACHA.

If confirmed, I will work with the Office of General Counsel, as well as Congress, regarding the appropriate ongoing role of the Department in addressing this important issue.

Two fundamental principles of U.S. international aviation policy are relying on market forces rather than government regulation and ensuring a fair and equal opportunity to compete.

has shown that it is not capable of appropriately considering state and local issues and needs in its regulatory process.

I completely agree that the unjust and unreasonable rates we find in intrastate inmate call rates represent an outrageous market failure.

I hope this committee will advance the Inmate Calling Technical Corrections Act before the end of the year.

You did not and never have endorsed unjust and unreasonable rates.

Lead is a dangerous neurotoxin for vulnerable populations like young children, pregnant mothers, and the elderly.

To restore confidence in the use of this authority, will you commit to supporting our legislation that will improve transparency?

I appreciate the return to transparency that you are pledging to bring to the EPA.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You are very generous and quite a gentleman.

I would rather be supporting American farmers growing American produce to put in American gas tanks.

Will you support reporting to Congress on the finding of this task force?

And finally, before I close, I want to address a critical program, the bipartisan Renewable Fuel Standards program.

I support your recent memo calling on your colleagues to be open and accessible, and committing to leading by example on open Government efforts.

I am very impressed with Marty's commitment to public service.

This is a serious shortcoming, since, even with the strongest law, it will be weakly enforced if it does not have vital funding.

The importance of using the best available science is because these species are critically imperiled, and we may not have another chance to get it right if we are not using the best available science.

I am concerned that the current discussion draft diverges from that bipartisan model.

That is just inadequate, and we are never going to make the progress that we need, regardless of what States are doing, if that is the kind of commitment that the Federal Government is able to make.

It is important that we always remember the foundational policy goals of this seminal Act: to protect and recover our Nation's endangered species and ecosystems.

Any effort to reform this critical law must recognize this fact and be very careful to guarantee that, at the very least, we do no harm when it comes to modifying our current science based framework.

I am actually going to be introducing legislation in the coming weeks that would responsibly expand TIFIA eligibility for major airport projects.