Eddie Bernice Johnson: “We must also be more inclusive in our policy-making for science and technology.”

Thank you, Chairman DeFazio, and Ranking Member Graves, for holding today's hearing on implementation of the IIJA.

He understood that the business of legislating and good politics required great skill in the art of compromise.

We want people who are intellectually curious, I think, to get those people and get them into the field.

I don't agree that the blame game of Republicans or the prior Administration holds any significance to where we are.