I look forward to hearing the testimony of our witnesses, and I trust we'll have a constructive dialogue about the important role of the federal government in funding science.

I'm deeply concerned about efforts by this Administration, the budget we saw yesterday, to drastically reduce scientific funding...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, very much.

I cannot imagine, Senator, that a man of your intelligence and political acumen was unaware of the meaning and consequences of inviting Charles Murray.

As we engage in the conversation on social capital, I believe it is important that we remember that racism in our society is still very real.

Republicans are also attempting to roll back efforts to curb carbon pollution, exit the Paris Agreement, privatize public lands, and allow coal production and oil and gas drilling in national parks.

Then there is the Trump administration and Republican efforts to slash funding for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of the Interior, and other Federal agencies that have a mission to keep our water and air clean and…

This attack comes despite the fact that counties with protected lands have faster economic growth than those without such protections.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Just yesterday, President Trump issued an executive order instructing a review of national monument designations as an attack on the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument designations by Presidents Obama and Clinton…

I have several objections to the legislation being considered today. As with the Secret Science Reform Act, the bill would seriously undercut the Environmental Protection Agency's ability to use science to inform their work. The bill would…

We seem to have seen this in marine monument to marine monument, that fishery catch actually goes up.

Some people have expressed concerns about the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, but I am optimistic about the long-term benefits.

I often find myself offering respectful disagreement with my Chairman, so I'd like to heap praise on him for his leadership on the dyslexia issue.

when we can see ahead of time that there're going to be real problems with space debris... doesn't that handcuff us a little bit on permissionless innovation?

most of that seems to have been permissionless, although I do worry... about what permissionless innovation might do there

It seems to me that the whole idea of this hearing was trying to figure out how we respond to the spirit and letter of Article VI, you know, light regulation, heavy regulation, permissive innovation and all that.

My amendment today is meant to address only one of several troubling provisions in the bill. As my colleagues have pointed out, the SCRUB Act is a radical approach to deregulation and would prioritize cost savings through repeal of rules…

Now you're thinking that we're going to be more like 1.6.

In fact, in 1982 the tobacco company R.J. Reynolds produced internal talking points about the social cost of smoking when Congressman Henry Waxman was holding hearings regarding the harm to the public's health from cigarette smoking.

Congratulations on your Nobel Prize.

The social cost of carbon is a complex metric which our witness Dr. Greenstone has described as the most important number you've never heard of.

This was not a political tool. This was an attempt to protect our environment.

Okay. Great. Thank you very much.

this is a great leap forward for the Committee and for America.