I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Before I begin, I wish to convey my warm thoughts and sentiments to Mrs. Lowey from New York, who is chairman of this committee. It has been a privilege to work with you for almost a decade in my…

What worries me, and I am going to be very specific to my congressional district that I am fortunate enough to serve.

I just have one further question.

This project is critical to maintaining U.S. leadership in neutron sciences.

We are working on a bipartisan supplemental for the coronavirus.

I want to praise and laud you for that. This is AI.

It is going to enable wholly new capabilities to examine the structure and dynamics of materials from polymers to proteins to catalysts.

I know Exascale computing is a high priority for the Department, as it is for me and this committee.

We love them both, but just not as much as Oak Ridge.

My heart aches for our great Republic today. I implore my Democratic colleagues in this House: We are not Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans. This is not the right place. This is not the right procedure. Settle our political…

Again, I want to thank Chairwoman Lowey and Ranking Member Granger, also Ranking Member Simpson. Today, I rise, again, in support of another one of our great appropriations bills, the Energy and Water and Related Agencies bill. As the…

Ranking Member, and Chairwoman Lowey, I rise today to lend my strong support to all of the appropriations bills that will be before us today, but specifically as the ranking member on the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the…

I thank the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Granger), the ranking member. As the ranking member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Appropriations, I know all too well the challenges we are facing on the border. I have the utmost respect…

Something that resounds, I think, on both sides is that our leaders, the House and the Senate and the administration, we need to come up with policies.

Few people have the gift to bring people together, but Kay Arthur is one of these special individuals. Her passion for people and deeply rooted faith is illuminated through her television, radio, and online programs in which she uses God's…

I went to the border--southwest border about a month ago to see the situation at three land ports of entry.

FEMA has done an outstanding job in dealing with the disasters.

I think that just speaks great volumes to where we have come in this country.

I just want to close by saying thank you again for an outstanding hearing. And again, to reconfirm what I have known and what the American people need to do, that you and your employees are truly outstanding Americans.

There are other states that are looking at long term storage, like our friends in Texas, and we know that but that will be 30-plus years, decades away.

But perhaps we can help them not only with the funding but to work towards making that maybe a more permanent system.

I support your initiatives, and I thank you for appearing before us today.

I appreciate what you all are doing here today very much.

I know of no other agency that can compete with the NNSA.

Yucca needs to go forward. The interim storage options are too burdensome, too costly and that is the site that was chosen, that is the site that was legally funded and the science is sound.