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Letter to NIST Demanding Answers Regarding the Termination of SMART USA Institute
Letter to NIST Demanding Answers Regarding the Termination of SMART USA Institute… Continue Reading
December 02, 2025Letter to NASA OIG with Additional Information Regarding Goddard Closures
Letter to NASA OIG with Additional Information Regarding Goddard Closures… Continue Reading
November 21, 2025Letter to NASA OIG Requesting and Audit of Goddard Space Flight Center
Letter to NASA OIG Requesting and Audit of Goddard Space Flight Center… Continue Reading
Science Democrats Condemn Illegal Elimination of the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations
Today, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Science Committee Democratic Members sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright condemning the illegal elimination of the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). OCED was created by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) with the purpose of cultivating the expertise required to provide high-quality, technology-independent management for large, commercially focused energy demonstration projects at DOE. The IIJA … Continue Reading
December 17, 2025Ranking Members Lofgren and Stevens Demand Answers on Terminated SMART USA Institute
Today, Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Research and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Haley Stevens (D-MI) sent a letter to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Acting Under Secretary Craig Burkhardt demanding an explanation for the termination of SMART USA Institute, a semiconductor research and development program authorized by Congress through the CHIPS and Science Act. “We worry that NIST’s arbitrary and capricious decisions to terminate its financial commitm… Continue Reading
December 17, 2025Ranking Member Lofgren Condemns Trump Administration’s Threat to Dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Yesterday, the Trump Administration’s threat to dismantle the National Science Foundation's National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), located in Boulder, CO, came to light. NCAR is a world-leading research center for fundamental and applied Earth system science and is responsible for critical research on weather prediction and natural disaster preparation. The Trump Administration has falsely cited “green new scam research activities” as its motive for dismantling NCAR—an institution with… 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 Lofgren's Opening Statement at Hearing on Research Security
Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) opening statement as prepared for the record is below: Thank you, Chairman McCormick and Ranking Member Sykes, for this hearing. Thank you to our witnesses for appearing today. As I said before, I hope that research security remains a bipartisan and productive topic for this Committee. We have an impressive legacy of legislation and oversight on research security. For years, on both sides of the aisle, we have maintained a deep understanding of, and respect … Continue Reading
December 18, 2025Ranking Member Sykes' Opening Statement at Hearing on Research Security
Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member Emilia Sykes (D-OH) opening statement as prepared for the record is below: Thank you, Chairman McCormick. And thank you to all of our witnesses for appearing today. Research security has long been a productive, bipartisan topic on this Committee. We have been able to put aside a lot of the noise coming from Committees and Members who are less serious about understanding the nuances of this issue, and we have a lot of successful legislati… Continue Reading
December 10, 2025Ranking Member Lofgren's Statement at Hearing on Genesis Mission
Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren's (D-CA) opening statement as prepared for the record is below: Good morning and thank you, Chairman Babin, for holding this hearing today, and to Under Secretary Gil for being here. Under normal circumstances, I would now begin talking about the exciting activities under your portfolio and how much I look forward to working with you on each of them. That would certainly include my longstanding support for dramatically accelerating the development and commercializati… Continue Reading