Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I am rising in support of the DOE and USDA Interagency Research Act, H.R. 1326. I thank the gentleman from Oklahoma (Mr. Lucas), again, our former committee chair, for reintroducing this legislation alongside the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lofgren), our ranking member of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. The Department of Energy and the United States Department of Agriculture have a long and established history of partnering to address multidisciplinary research areas like biomass energy development, sustainable aviation fuels, and various methods for improving clean energy development and deploying that development in rural America. H.R. 1326 is going to codify and strengthen these cross-cutting and collaborative research and development activities between these two departments, the Department of Energy and the Department of Agriculture. This bill positions these agencies to overcome future international competition challenges while accelerating the production of biofuels, renewable chemical feed stocks, and conversion systems that can support clean energy technologies and, of course, rural economic growth. Mr. Speaker, I join in encouraging my colleagues to support this legislation, and I reserve the balance of my time.”