The only way we'll achieve our potential is by utilizing America's most valuable resource: Our people.

This Committee has a long bi-partisan history of supporting STEM education for all and I look forward to continuing that today.

Thank you, Chairwoman Johnson for holding this hearing today to discuss how we can achieve the promise of a more diverse STEM workforce in the United States.

As I said at our last hearing, our Nation's space program is a source of pride.

We should be investing more in such inspiring and consequential research rather than cutting it, as is proposed in NASA's 2020 request.

I do not support the alternative of cannibalizing NASA's other important research activities just to speed up the human lunar exploration program.

I believe that human missions to the Moon and Mars, as well as robotic exploration, will continue to inspire.

That billion-dollar cut will have serious negative impacts on major research areas if enacted.

I hope that the proposals we'll receive are not funded in a similar fashion to the things done in the previous Administration, because that will cut the legs out from under us.

The enthusiasm and focus of the NASA family is contagious.

I appreciate the effort of the Administration to submit a proposal that emphasizes NOAA's core priorities, principally, protecting life and property.

NOAA's work benefits America's farmers, ranchers, coastal communities, disaster personnel, land-use planners, weather forecasters, and Americans across the country.

Our Nation's space program is a source of pride. It exemplifies the greatest aspects of our country: The pursuit of knowledge, heroism, technical excellence, perseverance, and the intrepid spirit to chart a course into the unknown.

we certainly don't want to push private industry out of the spectrum, as hard as you and I worked to make that possible.

Thank you, Madam Chairman. Jaime Herrera Beutler represents the Third District of the southwest of Washington State.

Current EPA leadership is taking positive steps to address these issues, and I laud their progress.

I trust the Committee's leadership will maintain this direction, and I look forward to working with them on that goal.

The lack of consistent commitment negatively impacts cost, schedule, performance, workforce morale, process discipline, and most importantly, safety.

We have a lot of work to do. These are exciting times for the Nation's space enterprise.

In both the House Agriculture Committee and the Science Committee, we've held hearings on biotechnology research and regulation for years. But I can't remember a more exciting or challenging time for the field than today.

I look forward to working with Chairwoman Johnson to advance legislation that will promote a national research strategy around engineering biology to ensure the U.S. remains the global leader in biotechnology.

I am here today to tell my colleagues about H.R. 974 and urge they pass it. This is a bill about congressional oversight, pure and simple. As this body knows, Dodd-Frank gave the Federal Reserve greater regulatory authority and established…

That is why this Congress I joined my colleague, Chairwoman Johnson, in introducing H.R. 34, the Energy and Water Research Integration Act.

Quite simply, all of the issues raised from NIST were ignored. The opportunity to have a hearing on this subject matter in the committee was ignored. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote against the rule and the underlying bill. We…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the resolution for consideration of H.R. 1. H.R. 1 includes provisions that fall under the jurisdiction of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, of…