Martin Heinrich

Dr. Klotz, my understanding is that Los Alamos is starting to transfer operations from the old Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) building into PF-4 and the new Radiological Laboratory, Utility and Office Building (RULOB).

As you know, technology transfer is incredibly important to me. It is a primary issue for me.

I have always been amazed. Not only is it really important for this sort recruitment and retention piece, but some of the most innovative things that spin off and end up helping our warfighters, really saving lives...

We suck them in and they are there for 30-plus years, which is really the goal.

I am a strong supporter of a modest set-aside of funding for laboratory-directed research and development, or LDRD.

I think we should continue to invest in missile defense programs that are proven and effective.

I think we need to support the President's budget, and frankly, I think we need to do a little better than that.

Do you know why the fish crossed the road? It's usually because the Forest Service put in a culvert or some other aquatic species crossing device, but the number of those has gone down precipitously in recent budget years.

Thank you again for coming out to the WIPP facility last August. That meant an enormous amount to the community and especially to the workers.

In my view, defense innovation is moving too slowly, oftentimes in cycles that last years, while commercial innovation can be measured in cycles of months.

I think it is going to be really important for us to view some of the particulars of how we manage the labs and particularly the things that bring people into the pipeline at the front end with the greatest amount of expertise and then…

Maintaining the prison at Guantanamo is costing American taxpayers almost $5 billion since it opened in 2002.

I very much appreciate the work of Senator Barrasso and his staff in working with us putting together this bipartisan bill.

I fully support the measured and cautious approach being taken by Secretary Moniz and Assistant Secretary Smith at the Department of Energy.

I co-sponsored this bill because I believe it will help stimulate job opportunities for my state's gas industry.

It just doesn't get much more bipartisan than that around here these days.

Seeing the level of experience at this single table, it highlights something that I think is worth mentioning just so that the public understands why these recruitment and retention issues are so incredibly important.

Senators Udall and Heinrich recently introduced a drought relief bill, S. 2470.

If the Senator from Florida will yield for a moment, having formerly served on the House Armed Services Committee, I know the Department of Defense budget is somewhere in the order of $550 billion. Surely SOUTHCOM must have a substantial…

The Senator from Florida also brought up another issue that I think is worth exploring. It is my understanding that he was recently briefed on the relationship that exists between these drug cartels and the entities that are actually…

My understanding is that the resource situation in Southern Command has changed so dramatically in recent years that not only is this interagency task force limited, but they have literally canceled more than 200 engagement activities and…

--in the United States and Canada. They have to literally sit there and watch these narcotics go by without having the resources to stop them in their tracks.

If I understand the Senator from Florida correctly, General Kelly simply does not have the resources to do the job we have done historically in terms of interdicting cocaine moving north for the market that, frankly, is in North America--

I am aware of the testimony of General Kelly, but given his role at SOUTHCOM and in particular its location in Florida and the fact that the Senator from Florida was there for the testimony, I would ask him to remind us exactly what…

I say to my colleague from Oregon, his leadership, along with Senator Crapo, on this firefighting budgeting and fire borrowing issue--that is really what it is--is critical to all of us in Western States. Every single one of us has seen…