“We have to remain competing!”

Senate Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX), Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) held a press conference today talking about the importance of funding the America Competes Act.

Since U.S. students place near the bottom in Physics and Mathematics, Senator Hutchinson talked about the importance of educating and encouraging the children for the future.

The America Competes Act will provide qualified teachers in secondary schools, and advanced placement courses, where students get the top education.
Funding for this legislation is very crucial, since the competitors, such as China, is moving forward quickly said all the senators.

Senator Hatch emphasized that it is time to pass this legislation to skip the yearly budgeting for the scientists.

Senator Cornyn touched upon all the foreign students who study in the United States and are not qualified to work here after their graduation. Sending the American-educated foreign students back to the competitors’ arms benefits the competitors, said the senator. He also mentioned that these students will not be stealing the Americans’ jobs; they are qualified to create new jobs.