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“VOICING SUPPORT FOR SCIENTISTS AND FEDERAL WORKERS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H2907 on April 27, 2017.
The Department oversees energy policies and is involved in how the US handles nuclear programs. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the Department's misguided energy regulations have caused large losses to consumers for decades.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
VOICING SUPPORT FOR SCIENTISTS AND FEDERAL WORKERS
(Mr. FOSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. FOSTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to voice support for the dedicated public servants who make this country great.
President Trump campaigned on a promise to drain the swamp, and instead he nominated unqualified Wall Street executives and career politicians for Cabinet and senior-level positions, leaving the next level of appointments almost entirely unfilled, all while threatening to cut the experienced Federal workforce who make our government work well every day.
As the only Ph.D. physicist in Congress, I know that many of these Federal workers and their support staff are scientists who work every day to advance innovation and improve our standard of living. The Department of Energy, for example, relies on scientists with technical expertise to run our national labs. The success of their work depends on long-term sustained funding and a continuity of competent leadership to make their new ideas a reality.
But our President's skinny budget would destroy scientific funding and force us to give up our place as a leader in innovation, and many of his appointments are insulting jokes. So last weekend I joined the March for Science because it is clear that this administration does not value science and scientific enterprise.
I call on my colleagues here today to support scientists and Federal workers. And if a swamp needs to be drained, the place to start is Mar-
a-Lago.
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