Chaka Fattah

Your written testimony will be, as we would say, spread across the record.

Thank you very much.

We do have obviously fiscal pressures on us and we have many of our fellow citizens who believe the federal government should be free from spending money.

Courthouses must be a safe harbor to which members of the public come to resolve disputes that often are volatile.

Thank you for your public service.

The need is clear. To reduce the budget by 55 percent would be catastrophic.

Now it is Chaka Fattah from Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love.

I urge the Committee to provide full support requested by the President for the National Science Foundation in the 2011 budget.

I think that the Committee has demonstrated in the past its significant support for and interest in the work of Big Brothers Big Sisters.

We are going to spend more money downstream when these same young people become victims or regretfully some of them become perpetrators of crime.

We cannot afford the lasting impact such cuts would have and impose on the most vulnerable of our youth.

Well let me thank you for your testimony and say that between both Ranking Member Wolf who has been really at the vanguard of a lot of the efforts around drug treatment, and the Second Chance Program, and just working with alternatives to…

Therefore, it is my honor to ask for $500,000 in this fiscal year's budget for EAC's Brooklyn TASC Project.

What was the percentage again?

Well, let me thank you for your testimony.

It is imperative that RISS' funding for 2011 at a minimum be restored to 2010 levels of $45 million.

All right. Gerard Lynch, Esquire.

Investments made to NASA, NOAA, STEM education are investments made to our nation here on earth.

Representative Suzanne Kosmas of Florida is drafting a bill called Space to Schools...

We ask your Committee to continue to support, encourage, where possible increase the funding for various STEM education initiatives...

We are concerned with the Administration's proposal for out-year funding for NASA's ARMD aeronautics...

The President's budget calls for an increase in NASA, I think, shows that they have a prioritization in terms of the work of NASA.

We have crossed a major river with the majority of the patents being sought in America are not being sought by domestic individuals.

We have a dearth of American, native-born American students pursuing science at the highest levels.

I think I am a signatory on the letter with the 50 colleagues on this matter. So obviously I am sympathetic.