Barbara Comstock

40,000 jobs for information security analysts go unfilled every year in the U.S., and employers are struggling to fill 200,000 other cyber-related jobs.

A STEM-educated workforce is necessary for innovation and for ensuring U.S. economic strength, competitiveness, and national security.

We in the region have worked together on these issues and, with this congressional approval and with the help of my colleague, Chairman Goodlatte, took this to the Judiciary Committee, who will now be able to begin the process of improving…

I look forward to working with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to move this timely legislation to ensure our nation's firefighters and paramedics have the tools they need to fight and prevent fire.

I strongly encourage the Subcommittee to move swiftly to reauthorize SAFER and FIRE to reassure their continuance without interruption.

We actually risk losing them to other countries. We risk American competitiveness.

By investing in materials science research, we invest in both innovation and the livelihood of our citizens.

One of my priorities as Chair of the Research and Technology Subcommittee is to make sure we are always maximizing the taxpayers' important investment in basic and fundamental research.

How do we measure success under SBIR and STTR? Is it patents awarded, small business revenue, employment growth, that ability to get to that next stage?

Anything private is not a substitute for the public because we still need that basic research.

I hope this Committee can continue to work together on making sure we maintain our nation's leadership in science.

How can we encourage more transdisciplinary approaches to solving some of our toughest challenges, from cybersecurity to traumatic brain injuries or Alzheimer's, diabetes, and so many more issues?

We will also look at the vast opportunities created by technology, which allows science to be more accessible and has created more data than ever before.

We will examine particular challenges such as setting priorities during a time of budgetary constraints, and ensuring that all taxpayer-funded research is high quality, reproducible, and conducted with integrity.

The key question before us today: How can NSF keep us and continue to keep us at the forefront of science and innovation for the next 70 Years?

Basic and fundamental research is about good jobs and a secure future.

We need teachers trained to understand this growing field and to develop the next generation of workers.

Although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy, they hold less than 25 percent of all STEM jobs.

This report will help us focus resources on the best and most effective methods.

We cannot afford to leave anyone behind.

We should be able to factually pull that up and check. I mean, we're long past having to have this type of finger-pointing when we have the technology.

We need to blow up the compact and change it quite considerably, make big changes here.

I want to reiterate some of the points that my colleague from Virginia made about the board statements this week really not only being troubling but irresponsible.

Those are very serious charges. And I think we need names and information on that.

They talk a lot about having more transparency, which is very different from how our medical research is done today.