Supporting governmental sponsored basic research is one of the most important things our country can do to encourage innovation, help the free enterprise system create good jobs, and make America competitive in a global economy.

We should not confuse the two.

I hope you will pursue the recommendations with the Secretary because he is a good Secretary and I think he is interested in these recommendations, as we will be.

Well, Senator Feinstein, I think we ought to follow up on that recommendation and see if there are appropriate instances where we can save the taxpayers money.

I would like for us to pursue the third party management.

the National Energy Technology Laboratory is a very important resource for the Department and for the Nation.

The Commission has done a good job. Senator Feinstein and I had an interim report, which we appreciated, from the chairman.

Some people think that every time the private sector gets involved, that is a bad thing. I am on the other side of that argument.

Our national laboratory system is critical to our Nation's competitiveness, national security, and way of life.

If you have impediments either within the administration or the law that would keep you from doing that, if you could let us know, we might be able to include them in the legislation.

We are trying to create an environment where precision medicine can succeed, where we get inventions and discoveries through the process more rapidly.

Shouldn't we be spending an equal amount of time trying to get that 42 percent down, so we create more dollars there?

It is the biggest attack on the opportunity for small businessmen and women in this country to make their way up the economic ladder that we've seen in a long, long time.

Let me begin by thanking the committee Chair, Senator Alexander, Ranking Member Senator Murray, and the other committee members for giving me this opportunity to testify about the Board's recent Browning-Ferris decision and its practical…

The number of contractual relationships now potentially encompassed within the majority's new standard appears to be virtually unlimited

We have 45 Senators who like to restore the law to the way it was before the Browning-Ferris decision.

It threatens to destroy that free enterprise, entrepreneurial spirit.

I urge all members of this committee to support locally owned businesses in your States by working to enact and protect, using the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act, S. 2015.

When I was young and playing the piano, I used to like to play fast, and my piano teacher would say to me, 'Lamar, play the music a little slower than you can play it, and you're more likely to get it right when you have a recital.'

Washington, D.C., looks like a Mount Vesuvius of rules, regulations, guidances, spewing forth from all directions.

You require 6,000 institutions to comply with this, correct?

it is not up to the Office of Civil Rights to make a law when the Federal law does not say anything about bullying.

the U.S. Senate does not agree that the Federal Government ought to be telling the local school what its bullying policy ought to be.

Then who gave you the authority to do that?

It may not be the sexiest topic in Washington, but it is at home.