Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of House Resolution 1097, supporting the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week. I would first like to thank my friend and colleague, the chairman of the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education, Mr. Lipinski, for introducing this resolution. As one of only a handful of engineers in Congress, Mr. Lipinski has and will continue to be a strong advocate for engineers and engineering on the Science and Technology Committee and in Congress. National Engineers Week, which was held from February 14 to February 20, has grown into a formal coalition of more than 100 engineering, education, and cultural societies, major corporations, and government agencies. Its goal is to raise public awareness of the significant positive contributions to society by engineers and encourage students to become engineers. This resolution supports the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week. It also pledges that the House of Representatives will work with the engineering community to make sure that the creativity and contribution of the engineering community can be expressed through research, development, standardization, education, and innovation. This is a vitally important cause for our country's future well- being. As China and India graduate record numbers of engineers, the number of engineering graduates in the United States is stagnant.…”