Suzanne Bonamici

Let me be clear. We need to fundamentally change our reliance on plastics.

The potential benefits are incredibly galvanizing to students.

Being a global leader in science and technology means we don't play to not lose.

Safeguarding our research is actually another wonderful opportunity for us in the U.S. to lead with our values.

We will have the chance to have a multidecadal national context within which will reside this important 4-year strategic plan.

Over time, however, we became complacent, and our commitment to nondefense R&D waned.

This leadership was built on the vision and political will of our leaders in the aftermath of World War II.

One place where there's a tremendous opportunity to show leadership is in confronting climate change, one of the most important challenges of our time.

Last year, the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology took a significant step to reinvigorate the U.S. science and technology enterprise with the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act.

Through our S&T strategy, we can leverage scientific investments to tackle our greatest challenges.

For more than 70 years, the United States has been the unquestioned global leader in science, technology, and innovation.

A critical piece of the Chips and Science Act we passed last year is the requirement for the White House to develop and regularly update a national science and technology strategy.

We cannot depend upon a growing international S&T enterprise, which is a good thing and is lifting all boats.

We face new and ever-growing challenges and threats of foreign interference in our S&T enterprise.

I personally believe that we need a STEM--a national STEM workforce and talent initiative similar in many respects to the GI Bill.

A real crisis in American education is that many of my colleagues in Congress and in State legislatures, are applying a device of strategy rooted in discrimination toward an exclusion of LGBTQ students, and students with disabilities.

Research has shown repeatedly that vouchers do not improve student achievement, and when policymakers make a conscious decision to give coupons to certain students to attend private schools, their message to the millions of students still…

I want to start by expressing my strong opposition to the notion that the solution to the so-called crisis in American education is to funnel taxpayer dollars to unaccountable private schools, and for-profit charter schools.

This is an issue that I've worked on on a bipartisan basis, particularly with Representative Posey over the years.

Experts predict that by the end of the century, hundreds of towns, cities, and villages across the United States and around the world will be all or partially underwater.

To eliminate child hunger, we must deliver sustained investments in our child nutrition programs.

Reauthorization is critical to addressing child hunger, and I hope my Republican colleagues will join Democrats to pass a comprehensive Federal child nutrition reauthorization.

I ask my colleagues critical of our attempts to lower costs not to just oppose our efforts, but please work with us and offer solutions to help families put food on the table.

It is life changing.

I worked in the past with Ranking Member Lucas and others on the historic and bipartisan Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act.