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Letters to Science Agency Leaders Demanding Information on Forthcoming DOGE RIFs
Letter to DOE Secretary Chris Wright Letter to NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro Letter to NIST Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology Craig Burkhardt Letter to NSF Director Panchanathan Letter to NOAA Acting Administrator Vice Admiral Nancy Hann… Continue Reading
February 10, 2025Letters to Science Agencies Demanding Answers Regarding Elon Musk Conflicts of Interest and Critical Data Accessed by DOGE
Letter to DOE Secretary Chris Wright Letter to NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro Letter to NIST Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology Craig Burkhardt Letter to NSF Director Panchanathan Letter to NOAA Acting Administrator Vice Admiral Nancy Hann … Continue Reading
February 03, 2025Letters to Science Agency Leaders Regarding President Trump's Reckless Executive Orders
Letter to NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan Letter to NASA Acting Administrator Janet Petro Letter to NIST Acting Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology Craig Burkhardt Letter to DOE Acting Secretary Ingrid Kolb Letter to NOAA Acting Administrator Vice Admiral Nancy Hann… Continue Reading
Trump Administration Sabotages Science and Taxpayers With Corrupt Takeover of NSF Building
Last night, Politico reported that the Trump administration is preparing to move the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) into the headquarters of the National Science Foundation (NSF) -potentially dislocating the entire staff of NSF. According to the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the HUD takeover of the NSF building involves plans for several luxury upgrades for HUD Secretary Scott Turner, including: A dedicated executive suite for the HUD Secretary on the… Continue Reading
June 13, 2025Ranking Member Lofgren Condemns RFK Jr.'s Anti-Science Takeover of Vaccine Advisory Committee, Demands Reversal
- On June 9, 2025, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy fired the entire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Yesterday, Secretary Kennedy announced new members of ACIP, including noted vaccine skeptics, without any proper vetting or a transparent selection process. ACIP is supposed to function as an advisory committee of independent experts which makes recommendations to the CDC on the use of vaccines to prevent… Continue Reading
June 02, 2025Ranking Member Lofgren Blasts Trump Administration for Reckless Budget Attacking Science
Late last week, the Trump administration began breaking out details of its budget requests agency by agency. The Administration is proposing massive cuts to federal science. The Science Committee does not have Congressional Justifications for every agency under its jurisdiction, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). “This sick joke of a budget is a nonstarter," said Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA). … Continue Reading
Federal investments in science are needed to reduce wildfire
It used to be that October marked the end of wildfire season, and the most destructive fires occurred in or around forested areas. But increasingly, more Americans experience the impacts of wildfires year-round. In 2021, nearly 50,000 wildfires were reported, which burned over seven million acres of land. And as we saw with the Marshall fire in Boulder County, sometimes the most devastating fires can happen in suburban areas in the dead of winter. As members of Congress representin… Continue Reading
February 22, 2022A federal coal ash strategy: putting health and safety first
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would crack down to protect public health and the environment from coal ash contamination. EPA will ramp up enforcement of its rules to prohibit companies from dumping coal ash into unlined storage pits, and to require those companies to speed up their efforts to close down the existing pits that have been shown to leak. As the Chairwoman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, I want to see our federal age… Continue Reading
January 14, 2022Mapping a Strong Future for Ocean Science and Technology
Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) Statement for the Record on Amendment #30 to H.R. 4394, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2024
Thank you, Chairman Cole and Ranking Member McGovern, for considering testimony related to H.R. 4394, the Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. The amendment that I have submitted, along with my colleague from Virgina, Mr. Beyer, is fairly straightforward. It adds additional funds to the Office of Science account to increase support for Fusion Energy Science, and it correspondingly reduces funds for the Office of Nuclear Energy. Fusion energy development is at a… Continue Reading
December 14, 2022Chairwoman Johnson's Statement on the WHOSTP's Report on Sustained Arctic Observation
Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson's (D-TX) statement on the White House Office of Science and Technology report, On the Need to Establish and Maintain a Sustained Arctic Obersving Network.I was pleased to receive the Office of Science and Technology Policy's report, On the Need to Establish and Maintain a Sustained Arctic Observing Network. This report is extremely timely as NOAA released their Arctic Report Card today, which details how shifting seasons and extreme weather in the rapidly wa… Continue Reading
April 25, 2022Chairwoman Johnson's Keynote Remarks at the American Meteorological Society Washington Forum
Keynote Remarks as Prepared Chairwoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology American Meteorological Society Washington Forum Good afternoon and thank you for inviting me to speak with you today. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with members of the American Meteorological Society. Founded over 100 years ago, the AMS is the nation’s foremost professional society for atmospheric sciences. The work done by AMS and its members is vital to th… Continue Reading