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

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

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

Thank you for your public service.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

All right. Gerard Lynch, Esquire.

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