Eddie Bernice Johnson

I frankly believe that given your track record and the size of this problem, your budget should be much, much higher than the $12 million that your entire program received last year.

I was so dismayed that the majority proposed to cut this agency by 50 percent in their COMPETES bill just last week.

But the solution to that... you have more injection wells spread out over a larger area.

This hearing is advertised as being about the science of fracking, but the majority's witnesses consist of state economic regulation and development officials representative of a firm that was set up to run public relations for the…

If we had more transparency, more accountability, and more oversight, local communities would be able to make well-informed choices.

I am pleased that the oil and gas industry has done so well and most especially during the Obama Administration's tenure.

I'd like to see...focusing on what can we do about it.

What concerns me is the denial of the findings.

I think the problem is not that local communities are given bad information from activists, it is that local communities cannot get accurate information about the environmental and health impacts resulting from oil and natural gas…

I am from Texas, and like you I am also pleased that the oil and gas industry has done so well during the Obama Administration's tenure.

More than 500 local communities, including some in my home State of Texas, have raised concerns about the practice of fracking and have considered or passed bans to restrict fracking activities.

Prepared statement submitted by Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, Ranking Member, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives.

I appreciate the President's commitment to NASA as expressed in this budget request.

America's human spaceflight program is worth continuing, Mars is the appropriate goal.

I hope that Congress will at least equal that budgetary top line, if not exceed it.

I think you know that I'm a big NASA fan, you know, from Buck Rogers to James Kirk to the real-life accomplishments of John Glenn and Neil Armstrong and so many other pioneers of space travel.

NASA is a crown jewel of America's research and development enterprise. It advances knowledge, promotes technological innovation, projects a positive image of America throughout the world, and inspires.

It's directly counter to the National Academies' findings, and I think Congress needs to correct that.

The hardworking women and men of NASA deserve better.

the United States is presently sanctioning the Russian Federation in the field of high-tech exports as a result of Russia's actions in the Ukraine.

Now, there have been several statements here about how reducing carbon emission has costs, but we should also consider the costs of inaction.

So in taking a leadership role to address climate change, the United States has an opportunity to further spur innovation and development of sustainable technologies.

Ocean acidification is threatening this industry, as well as those in the Gulf of Mexico, New England, mid-Atlantic.

It seems to me that the Administration is likely the best source to fill in any details regarding the proposal or to address any questions or concerns Members of this Committee may have.

We, as a nation, must act today to address climate change if we are to preserve our quality of life for our children and grandchildren, and some old people like me.