Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank Ranking Member Lofgren for yielding me the time to speak on behalf of my bill, H.R. 1735, and I thank so much my colleague, Representative Baird, for his tireless efforts to help us get this across the finish line. It is past time that America's K-12 students enter the 21st century, and this Mathematical and Statistical Modeling Education Act is a bipartisan bill that will help with that and will direct $10 million in funding, importantly, funding that is already appropriated to the National Science Foundation, toward grant programs, and it will support the modernization of mathematical and statistical modeling education across this fine Nation. As someone who is educated as a systems engineer, with both undergraduate and graduate degrees, which focused on things like operations research and linear programming and statistical modeling, I have had the privilege of using all of these kinds of maths all during my career and life. Also, as a former high school chemistry teacher, I saw firsthand that many of my students struggled because they lacked the basic foundations in math that are necessary to succeed in the sciences, and frankly, to succeed in our economy. These math skills form the basis of all the STEM disciplines, and importantly, they also form the basis of critical thinking and problem- solving as well.…”