Eddie Bernice Johnson

I hope Congress will have the wisdom to fully fund both requests.

I believe that the Department has proposed a serious request worthy of our careful consideration.

Let me start by reminding my colleagues that we have seen how government-supported research can pay off.

I would like to learn more about how the significant shifts you proposed to the fossil energy research budget will affect these efforts.

I continue to support research to make today's technologies safer, cleaner, and more efficient, but we also have to find the greatest value for our investment of taxpayers' dollars.

I think we can all agree that we cannot support these actions.

There is no doubt that some of my colleagues see advantage in the negative headlines that have come with the NEON story.

America has historically been a leader in advancing new energy technologies, as well as the fundamental sciences of physics, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and computational science that support energy innovation.

High performance computing, or supercomputing, is one area we have led in for decades, and the U.S. currently hosts more than 45% of the 500 fastest supercomputers in the world.

But our leadership in technology is challenged by the growing investments of other countries in education and research; investments that are now projected to quickly outpace our own investments here at home.

Thank you Chairman Weber for holding this hearing, and I also want to thank this excellent panel of witnesses for their testimony and for being here today.

we have asked NASA to achieve its exploration goals on a budget that doesn't even keep pace with inflation.

We need to honor this thirst for exploration.

I want to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle in the next Congress to provide the funding that NASA will need.

The development of the Space Launch System, SLS, and the Orion crew vehicle are necessary next steps in reaching our goals for human space exploration.

Increasing NASA's budget to allow increasing the human spaceflight budget by five percent per year would enable pathways with potentially viable mission rates greatly reducing technical, cost, and schedule risk.

Please keep in mind that this hearing is largely an excuse for the majority to again express their dislike for the Affordable Care Act and the online Marketplace that has led millions of Americans to find medical coverage.

You are accountable to the President and to the American people.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and let me express my appreciation for your service, since this might very well be your last chairing of this Committee, and wish you well in the future.

You can't just say this was CMS's responsibility. And let me remind you that you can delegate responsibility to people that do the actual coding, to Project Managers and Program Managers, but you can't delegate accountability.

I know that they do not like Obamacare. The Majority has voted at least some 53 times during this Congress to repeal or dismantle the ACA.

I do think we should be ready, but I also think we have to be concerned about expiration dates and how much we are stacking up for something that might not be necessary.

I cannot tell you how much appreciation I have for the type of leadership that you put into play when this happened.

I have fought hard against efforts in this Committee to slash funding for these important NSF directorates.

Without learning and--without funding research into this area, including the foundational research that underlies the more applied work, we will not discover the biological basis for dyslexia.