Chaka Fattah

We may not be getting there as quickly as we want or some may want, but we are definitely headed in the right direction.

I attended your remarks at the Chamber of Commerce when you laid out a vision to build it here and sell it everywhere, focused on manufacturing, focused on unifying the entire government, not just the Commerce Department but around really…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

We are doing a lot of work through the administration on creating new materials and composite materials.

I support his interest and concern about what we are going to do relative to planetary science and Mars.

Maybe we can get a stronger allocation for NASA.

There is a need for a government stimulus in this regard and support.

We look forward to your testimony.

I think we should be rewarding employees as much as we need them, because we cannot afford to lose them.

I want to commend you for that.

This is a serious issue. And as a scientist, you will appreciate that on the one hand scientists want to have broad interactions around inventions and new ideas and new approaches in the scientific community.

I assume that some think that the American people are gullible, but this is not a coincidence or happenstance. We've got a Republican majority that took us from trillions in surplus to trillions in deficit, added a $7 trillion prescription…

I am all for returning to the time in which Congress would exert some authority in these matters.

I think by working with the Corps over the years a lot has been done.

This is a budget-neutral reorganization that will allow private business to get data that NOAA has already collected. That's all it is. It's critically important information for those businesses. And a third of our gross domestic product…

One, this is a budget-neutral reorganization of NOAA. Two, a third of our gross domestic product requires accurate information in terms of climate and weather conditions. And the third and most important point, this reorganization, this…

48 hours ago, two officials of the United States Government, ICE agents, were attacked. They were in an armed vehicle which was traveling south of the border. One of those agents died. The assault weapons used in this incident, like tens…

I think that is a reasonable thing to think about whether or not we would want to have a notification to our government if someone was buying large quantities of assault weapons, especially along the border, which many, many of our…

During the campaign season, there was a meeting with the Wall Street barons by the leaders of the other side. They promised them exactly this: that they were going to essentially go back to an unregulated system. It almost bankrupted the…

That is why I'm a cosponsor of your legislation, H.R. 5791, because it addressed directly this point. I was at the ribbon cutting and grand opening for this company with the Governor and with my colleague, Congressman Brady, whose district…

I want to thank our leader on this effort of focusing in on what really matters economically in our country, which is manufacturing-based jobs. You know, in Philadelphia we have some 1,300 manufacturers, and in your package of bills that…

An ounce of prevention is far preferable than a pound of cure.

You can expound to whatever degree you like given that there are less than eight minutes left on this vote.

We hope that you will continue to strongly support funding for the National Science Foundation.

But your judgment is in question if you sincerely believe the Senate is going to do anything at any point.