animals by the sandia national lab found that changes in rainfall alone could cost massachusetts $8 billion in g.d.p. and nearly 38,000 jobs between 2010 and 2050. that's just massachusetts alone. new england could see a $22 billion hit to our g.d.p. and almost 100,000 jobs lost from changing description patterns. sea level rise will also threaten coastal communities where a third of massachusetts' population lives. the seas are getting hotter, they are getting higher and those hotter, higher seas are making storms more damaging. storm surges on top of sea level rise could cause hundreds of billions in damages to cities on the massachusetts coast during the next decade. in 1775, paul revere warned massachusetts revolutionaries of an invasion coming from the sea. with climate change, boston and the baystate could now face an invasion of the sea itself in massachusetts. and all across new england. as sea levels rise and storms become more severe, many of boston's best-known landmarks will be threatened, including daniel hall and quincy market, north station, copley church, john hancock tower,

in new mexico many companies have been formed as a result of discoveries at los alamos and sandia national labs. for example, mustomo is a start-up using technology developed at lanl. they provide 3-d tomography for the detection of breast cancer. and technology from sandia used by team technologies has created a device than that can disable improvised explosive devices. since 2010, over 4,000 units have been deployed and are saving lives in war zones right now. but despite these amazing successes, we are operating at just a fraction of the potential. my home state could do so much more. new mexico has all the ingredients to become a high-tech powerhouse. great minds at our national labs and military bases, fantastic universities, and a booming energy industry. we need to create an environment to allow it to reach that potential. this is a major initiative of mine to help create the right formula to help industry take off in new mexico. that's the purpose of my bill. almost a decade ago, congress created a department of energy technology transfer coordinator to move innovation from the lab benc