mr. feenstra: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. schneider, for five minutes. mr. schneider: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, as we reach the middle of 2021, this house has made incredible progress. including fighting the global pandemic by passing the american rescue plan. already more than 300 million vaccine shots have been administered. communities are opening up. businesses picking up. creating jobs and opportunity. next month parents will begin receiving their monthly child tax credit, legislation that will cut the nation's child poverty rate in half. we have a pathway to recovery and transformation that offers real promise to every american. but underneath all of this our country face as deep divide that threatens to undo the foundations upon which our country rests. these divisions reached an apex on january 6 when our capitol came under attack and five people died. the immediate threat to the capitol may have rec

mr. feenstra: thank you. i've seen that a lot with our corn crop in the fall and soybeans when we're ready to harvest and a spark is set off by a combine or whatever and we have a lot of devastation. i have one other question for you. iowa's also home to numerous lakes and rivers which are important for recreation, economic activities for my constituents. when discussing wildfires, we commonly focus on the damage and destruction due to the flames and vegetation and manmade infrastructures. however, i'd like to ask, what consequences can high-intensity and high-heat wildfires have on watersheds? and what additional research do we need to better understand these impacts? mr. geissler: i'm actually very glad you brought that up. postfire recovery is something a lot of us within the council and within the community are really looking to how do we better do a better job of this. right now, if you look at resources that are available, forest service does have what they call have burn area response teams that can ev

mr. feenstra: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of the national science foundation for the future act. this legislation contains several provisions that will help ensure the united states continues to be a global leader in science and technology. it invests in critical stem programs and research that will pave the way for new and exciting technological developments. it invests in critical stem programs and i am pleased that this legislation also includes a proposal that i introduced to protect american intellectual property from falling into the wrong hands. my proposal, which passed the science committee with unanimous support, prevents government funded research from participating in projects that are run by so-called foreign countries of concern, including china, north korea, russia, iran and others defined by the state department. taxpayer dollars should not be spent on research that could end up in the hands of our competitors or our adversaries. this is especially true when it comes to china. my bipartisan p

mr. feenstra is next. >> thank you, chairmanwoman johnson and ranking member lucas. secretary granholm thank you for testifying before the committee today. as you know iowa is a leader in our nation in producing clean biofuels. and my congressional district is the number one producer of biofuels in the country. i appreciate the work of the d.o.e. is doing to look at the innovative uses for our biofuels such as helping decarbonize our airline industry and expanding their use as low carbon fuels. i am actively working on legislative solutions for these issues. and i look forward to working with the d.o.e. i also look forward to working with the d.o.e. to continue to advance our biofuel industry to being a net carbon negative fuel in innovative research. today i'd like to focus op recent research findings and reports by your department. earlier this week the d.o.e. arguen national lab released a study i'll quote the headline. corn ethanol reduces carbon footprint and diminishes greenhouse gases. this study showed that from 2005 to 2019 corn ethanol resulted in more than