Marcy Kaptur

You have an open invitation to call my office and bring your people over.

The Trump budget also falls short in meeting our obligations to the communities that have sacrificed, and still bear the brunt of environmental costs born from winning World War II.

The proposed elimination of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, ARPA-E, Program is an absolute nonstarter.

Cuts of this magnitude will endanger America's leadership in technological innovation, economic progress, and, I believe, national security.

Worst of all, President Trump reneged on his word.

These cuts are divorced from reality.

When will the White House learn their proposal is flawed and dangerous to our people and our communities?

This budget request is simply sprinting toward failure.

I am always and have been concerned that you are on the receiving end from requests from the Department of Defense: We need it. We will supply.

I urge you to be creative.

The need for collaboration huge, and some States do a good job, some States don't do a good job

Will you commit to ensure expedited review of these proposals?

But this committee, this subcommittee, will persevere.

I have also always believed that it is less costly to spend money on nonproliferation to prevent the spread of materials and preventing other countries from securing them.

I do believe our role is to make sure we have rigorous oversight, as obviously we are spending the taxpayers' dollars properly.

The administration has chosen to eliminate the weatherization and State energy program that helps individuals across our country save on energy costs

I want to thank the ranking member for his remarks, and I endorse them.

I was there when we wrote the first provision in an appropriation bill in the late 1990s to move the Department of Agriculture into fuels.

I also wanted to say in terms of methane digesters, many of our large animal facilities can't find a methane digester that doesn't break down.

I really think a blending of your knowledge on material science, energy science, water science, and the Department of Agriculture's abilities in production agriculture could be most interesting.

We are so happy to have your focus there. I think it is going to take both departments to really lead America forward in this really important arena.

Unfortunately, once again, the President's budget request harms American leadership and our energy future, our competitiveness, our environment, our workforce, our consumers, and our economy.

I am reminded of a quote from Robert Kennedy, 'Some people see things as they are and say why, I dream things that never were, and say, why not.'

Abandoning this research sends a blank check to China and our global competitors.

Without these critical Federal investments we won't be able to move early-stage R&D forward and really continue to launch companies to the stage that private investors will pick up the work.