Eddie Bernice Johnson

Energy Savings Performance Contracts, or the ESPCs, are tools capable of providing substantial financial and environmental benefits to both the Federal Government and companies in the private sector.

I look forward to hearing from these witnesses on how we encourage the use of ESPCs to help make the Federal Government a leader and a leader in energy efficient building technology.

NASA is an investment in our future. The women and men who work at NASA are some of our best and brightest.

NASA is an investment in our future.

It contains policy direction that I fear will do long-term damage to the agency.

Unfortunately, the draft bill that we are starting to examine today doesn't do that.

I strongly believe that any NASA authorization bill that comes out of this Committee should reflect these realities.

This is a flawed draft, starting from its funding assumptions, and I cannot support it in the present form.

I think this budget request is a step in the right direction, and I look forward to working with you, Mr. Secretary, and my colleagues across the aisle to provide you with the direction, the tools, and the resources that you need to get us…

I continue to support research to make today's technologies cleaner and more efficient, but I believe that it is time to level the playing field and introduce real competition to the markets.

We as a nation must invest in preparedness and resilience.

The last few years have been devastating years for natural disasters in this country.

I want to express my support for the legislation recently introduced by Congresswoman Wilson, of which I am a cosponsor.

It is clear that NWIRP agencies have not gotten the resources they need to carry out all of the responsibilities assigned to them by Congress.

This course of action seems irresponsible.

I believe we need to take a multi-hazards approach to disaster mitigation.

This Committee has an important role to play in helping Americans prepare for and recover from all natural hazards.

Improving STEM education is the United States--in the United States has been a major focus of mine since before I came to Congress.

Since the 1960s, NASA has been key in encouraging students to study science and engineering and I hope we don't do anything to compromise this.

To be blunt, it seems to me that it was not very well thought out.

Unfortunately, prior to the release of the CoSTEM Strategic Plan, OMB included a proposal in the President's Fiscal Year 2014 budget of a sweeping reorganization of Federal STEM education programs.

Improving STEM education in the United States has been a major focus of mine since I came to Congress.

NASA seems to have taken the biggest hit in the budget proposal, and this doesn't make any sense to me.

I was very supportive of this mandate because I believed it was important to look at what the Federal government has been doing and how we can improve our efforts.

I have serious concerns with the budget proposal itself.