John Rockefeller actually said...

Losing our dominance in science and high-tech fields has led to a loss of 687,000 manufacturing jobs since 2000.

The Federal Government should focus on scaling effective programs in STEM fields.

What is needed is to attach some modest level of educational accountability to the large amount of Federal support for science research.

A large reason for that is Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and, I for one am going to be incredibly sorry to see her go.