Deborah Koff Ross

Cutting NOAA's budget by at least 22 percent below Fiscal Year 2023 enacted levels will be devastating for the progress that NOAA is making.

The importance and timeliness of NOAA's focus on building a climate-ready nation cannot be understated.

Without a doubt, it's paramount for Congress to continue supporting NOAA's mission through a well-funded budget.

Speaker McCarthy's budget proposal includes a 22-percent cut across the board for domestic and social programs.

This hearing has been way too partisan under the guise of protecting children.

My home State of North Carolina is particularly vulnerable to extreme weather events, hurricanes on our coasts...

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. And I also want you to know that I will support all improvements in weather forecasting and modeling through innovations in data collection and data assimilation.

Ensuring that the National Weather Service has the data and tools to provide timely and accurate forecasts is integral to the safety and well-being of Americans.

Weather forecasts help inform decisions made by Americans every day and play an especially critical role in protecting lives and property during extreme weather events.

First, I must say that my heart goes out to the families who lost their loved ones due to severe weather storms that occurred across the South over the weekend.

Well, thank you so much, Chairman Miller, for holding this important hearing on improving weather and climate predictions.

I'm proud to represent North Carolina's 2nd Congressional District, and our State's Department of Transportation (NCDOT) is one of eight lead participants in the FAA's BEYOND program.

We must put people over politics.

My Democratic colleagues and I strongly support the experts' community's effort to determine the origins of the novel coronavirus.

These views are dangerous and have no place in a hearing examining the origins of a pandemic.

The notion that people of different racial or ethnic groups are more successful or intellectually superior to another because of predisposed genetic makeup is grossly inconsistent with the consensus of scientific and medical scholarship.

I was alarmed to see someone who wrote a book applauded by white supremacists.

Shouldn't we also hold stores, retailers, and the distributors of counterfeit goods in this country accountable?

This disparity in patent eligibility threatens to drive innovation out of our country and into systems with broader criteria.

Unfortunately, uncertainty in our own IP system has not helped us maintain our edge.

China has long relied on counterfeit goods to gain leverage over U.S. companies.

These innovators from independent singer/songwriters to investors in R&D share a common concern--Chinese infringement on the creative work into which they've poured their time, their money, and their dreams.

I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Madam Speaker, again, I thank Chairman Lucas for his leadership and my colleague, Congressman Carey, for his support of this. We have worked very closely together, again in…

Because our immigration system is so broken; they have to self-deport at age 21.

It is my hope that the majority on this Committee really wants to do that hard work.