José E. Serrano

It would be extremely worthwhile for this subcommittee to follow up with a hearing to consider NASA's budget amendment to accelerate the U.S. return to the moon in 2024.

There has to be law enforcement within law enforcement to deal with discrimination cases.

The largest barriers to combating hate crimes was underidentification and underreporting.

Going back to FEMA for a second, your 2018 report described the positive role that CRS conciliation specialists served in facilitating FEMA operations in Puerto Rico, particularly with disadvantaged communities suffering from Hurricanes…

Our ability to innovate and lead in fields like artificial intelligence, quantum cyber, and nanotechnology depends on our ability to motivate and train today's students.

The work in Puerto Rico is very important to us.

We would rather fall on our swords than divulge confidential information to any inappropriate source.

The people who gave you more money in the budget last time was this subcommittee, in a bipartisan fashion.

It is clear to this subcommittee on this side--and I venture to say that the other side knows it too--that they are trying to get rid of your agency and that is why they are trying to put it somewhere else.

I don't think I ever saw on the Statue of Liberty, 'Give me your best and your brightest,' I saw, you give me, 'Give me your poor and your tired,' and it goes to the hurting and yearning.

Does OSTP plan to coordinate with federal grant making departments and agencies to develop consistent policy as to what constitutes foreign influence?

At the Mueller hearing, they are waiting for a bombshell statement. We found out there is no presidential committee and now that you are fully staffed, so this is the news of the day.

It is just that we have to pay for a lot of other things, so----

The administration's budget request for STEM education programs are wholly inadequate to our nation's needs.

Well, one of the things that I have repeatedly said to the committee, which they are tired of hearing already, but you haven't heard it yet, is that my experience, I have never seen an auditorium of children and young people, high school…

This committee has a lot of faith in your abilities and your honesty.

The administration has proposed a $1.6 billion budget amendment that is just a down payment on the over $20 billion in additional funding that would be required to launch the man moon mission four years early.

Now, when CRS takes on a role that is mediated, does it reduce the likelihood that litigation might otherwise be pursued?

The reason Puerto Rico could not be helped right away was because it was an island surrounded by water in the middle of the ocean

Very interesting. Well, then that throws out like half of my questions here.

Nowhere is that more prominent than in the discussion of climate change. The Trump administration has pursued a relentless agenda of climate change denial.

There seems to have been clear attempts to bury the unbiased research and conclusions of the scientists who work for the Federal Government.

Since January 2017, there has been a consistent effort to undermine the Federal agencies that make the United States the world leader in science and technology.

The role of this Presidential Committee is to attack scientific findings.

Mr. Aderholt and I may disagree again. But we are big supporters and we intend to continue to work on that together.