Political Quotes

“H.R. 554 is a bipartisan bill which I and Ranking Member Hall jointly introduced along with 20 additional Democratic and Republican cosponsors. H.R. 554 is the same legislation that the House passed by an overwhelming majority of 407-6 votes in the last Congress. I urge my colleagues to again support this legislation as it will strengthen our Nation's competitiveness in the rapidly advancing field of nanotechnology. I want to begin by thanking my colleague Mr. Hall for working with me to craft this legislation. I also want to thank Dr. Baird and Dr. Ehlers, who have both been instrumental in the development of this bill. As well, I want to thank a former staff director, Jim Wilson, who recently retired but who played a major role in putting this bill together. Finally, I want to thank all of the members of the Science and Technology Committee on both sides of the aisle for their contributions to this bill and for helping to move it expeditiously and unanimously through the committee last year, and I want to thank them for their support of the legislation again this year. I would like to spend just a few moments reminding my colleagues as to why nanotechnology is important to the Nation and why we bring this bill before the House for approval today.”