Vernon Ehlers: “The items the gentlewoman has mentioned are all, if I heard them correctly, are all in the educational area, and are not…”

I personally would prefer, if we are going to show preferences here and use the money for that purpose, I would really prefer that we use those funds to give preference to those organizations that submit proposals for doing research and…

I simply want to point out this is a very important thing that we should do for our troops. I'm delighted that someone has suggested that we use the rotunda for this purpose. We all know how difficult it has been for the troops in both…

The substance of the bill is good. I support the general intent of it. I am very concerned about several aspects. One of those is the size of the increase of the allocation, which is going to hurt our Nation's research effort in its…

This is a major area of concern. We are losing ground compared to other countries. Numerous international tests have displayed that our students are not doing nearly as well. That explains in part why we are losing business, research…