we are funding the core program so that NIST has the capacity to do work in all of these areas. We suggest across the board that NIST is the premier agency for doing standard setting, and we fund a program that is in line with the President's request for doing that core program. That is what we are doing here. It would certainly allow them to set standards in either updated standards in old areas or new standards. That is what the bill is all about.
Scott Walker: “we are funding the core program so that NIST has the capacity to do work in all of these areas. We suggest across the…”
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Discussing funding for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) during a floor speech.
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