Maria Cantwell actually said...

"I believe is, definitely, that the national labs should, in the American Competes Act--or as some now are calling it, USICA--gets it's fair share of R&D dollars for the future."

"I am a whole-hearted believer in this, and we have changed the EPSCoR program to work more effectively in the USICA Act because of this."

"There is not an issue of national security or, you know, competitiveness that does not come back to the material science aspect."

"I mean, this seems to be the new thing is to, let's see how much intimidation we can drive through infiltrating power plants or pipelines, things of that nature."