09/22/2015
https://www.congress.gov...
"Economic development today is different than it was 50 years ago, most people who work in it understand that better schools, colleges, universities, national laboratories are essential to it."
"The other day they shut down an 8 mile section of Interstate 40 in Knoxville, one of the most heavily traveled interstates in Tennessee for 14 months. And they fixed it."
"America's brain power advantage since World War II is the single greatest contributing factor to our high standard of living."
"Our great laboratories are our principal engines of economic development, not just in Tennessee, but in our country."