modernization efforts and the committee has done a lot to make sure we fully fund that and visited the fermi lab, this issue about government funded research is not limited to the energy department. nasa has 17,000 patents. the administration has been doing work -- the white house required all of the department to work on this question, technology transfer and jobs and energy working hand in hand with the commerce department with the innovative marketplace to get american manufacturers a first run at many of these opportunities. this is a serious issue. you have conflicting issues and as a scientist you appreciate the fact it is a conflicting issue in which scientists want to have a broad interaction around inventions and new ideas and approaches in the scientific community. at the same time we are an economic competition with other countries. making all this information public, making it available leads to economic competitiveness getting opportunities that work -- pick the fruit off of trees we planted with american taxpayer dollars. the issue here of taking patents or taking research that