Jim McDermott: “I feel like it is springtime. And farmers plow their field; they have to plow the dirt before they go to work.”

It has been a pleasure serving on this committee.

This area is such a large part of our economy as well as such a large part of our question of national security.

We are trying to figure out where we are going as a country and how we can turn our investments and innovation into sustainable models moving forward.

This committee has the potential of doing more good for the American people than perhaps any other single subcommittee in the Congress.