Committee deals with, i wanted to ask you about Stem Education area you come from a science background. Science education. What is your committee doing when it comes to Stem Education and what do you think the congress should be doing. Let me start with the committee. The committee has asked path to major pieces of legislation that was bipartisan, pass on a consent calendar but it has lower in the senate. It is extraordinarily important that we not only just spread the word but also put in instruments and in the environment, and the environment to make sure that women and minorities arent told about the importance of stem courses and were seeing it every day. Because innovation is our future and we dont have the people educated and trained and we see a lack of the brainpower now with affecting theimmigration. H1b visas are topped out, we are seeing fewer and fewer students coming from india, china we have had lots of support in that area. We just all recently for example the nobel laur
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