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Secret Science Reform Act of 2014

Floor Speech

Date: Nov. 19, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Science Environment

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Mr. McGOVERN. I thank my colleague from Massachusetts for the time.

Mr. Chairman, there used to be a time when our Republican friends respected science. There used to be a time when people like Vern Ehlers, a physicist from Michigan, was welcomed in the Republican Conference. Sadly, those times are long gone. If we can't agree on basic scientific principles, then there isn't much hope for us to agree on much else.

I will remind my colleagues, for the record, up is up, down is down, gravity exists, the Earth orbits the Sun, and climate change is real. It doesn't matter whether the data is private or public. What matters is whether the findings are peer reviewed and can withstand scientific scrutiny.

Scientists understand that the real litmus test for supporting a finding is independent confirmation, using a completely independent method.

I urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this commonsense amendment.

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