Donald Payne: “I have introduced legislation (H.R. 3613, the Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2017) to address neighborhood…”

I hope the witnesses here today will help me understand why the Department rushed to reorganize--without Congressional authorization--at a time when permanent leaders were in place in only one of the impacted offices.

Such vague explanations are little justification for setting a disruptive reorganization in motion.

I stand with you. Instead of letting senseless actions take place, it is long overdue that we do what makes the most sense and take significant action to stop this from ever happening again.

I implore the administration to submit a responsible budget that recognizes the connectivity between various important S&T research programs.