02/10/2015
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"Our national laboratory system is critical to our Nation's competitiveness, national security, and way of life."
"You did what we asked in that you made specific recommendations, 36 of them, for Congress, some for the Department of Energy and the administration to consider."
"Thank you, Senator Coons."
"Both Senator Feinstein and I, regardless of which one of us was chairman of this committee, have supported strong funding for the Office of Science and for basic research."