the budget proposal included eliminating STEM education programs.

I certainly don't want to leave these folks after I leave this year, and Mrs. Lowey leaves at the same time, with having to figure out how to pay the other $25 billion over a period of time.

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

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

Would you keep that support if the people knew that eventually it would have to take money from their very-needed situation?

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

we could probably find a way to get there during a hurricane, but we are still waiting for their response

I look forward to hearing how annual funding supports your agencies' STEM programs, how you work in coordination with your Federal partners to not duplicate STEM efforts.

the reason you alluded to a generous increase is because this Chairman and Mr. Aderholt and our leadership agree in helping NASA and NSF, especially in the STEM field

I am proud of the fact that I was able to deal with issues that ordinary people would think I was stereotypically not capable of dealing with.

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

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