The United States has the most dynamic private sector in the world, with entrepreneurs, investors, big companies, and capital markets all eager to license technologies and launch start-ups. Those ventures, however, are often driven by technologies that come from basic research funded by the federal government. But we’re falling behind--the Chinese Communist Party has already surpassed the U.S. in total R&D spending. We must quickly invest in American basic research and the development of technologies of the future across sectors to ensure our leadership in science—along with our national security—is not compromised.
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June 2020
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6/24/20 | H.R. 7308, the Research Investment to Spark the Economy (RISE) Act |
6/15/20 | H.R. 7214, the Surface Transportation Research and Development Act of 2020 |
May 2020
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5/28/20 | H.R. 7061, the American Critical Mineral Exploration and Innovation Act of 2020. |
5/8/20 | H.R. 6796, the Nuclear Energy for the Future Act |
April 2020
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4/23/20 | H.R. 6599, the Computing Opportunities to Vanquish Infectious Diseases (COVID) Research Act of 2020 |
March 2020
February 2020
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2/27/20 | Lucas Opening Statement at Full Committee Hearing on the FY21 Federal R&D Budget |