Sherwood Boehlert
Sherwood Boehlert
Sherwood "Sherry" Louis Boehlertis a retired American politician from New York. He represented upstate New York in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 until 2007. Boehlert, a Republican, was considered to be a member of the party's moderate wing. He served as Chairman of the Science Committee from 2001 to 2006...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth28 September 1936
CountryUnited States of America
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Our voice is being listened to now more than it has in the past.
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NASA cannot use aeronautics and science as a piggy bank to fund human space flight.
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NASA cannot carry out all the tasks currently on its plate without significantly more money.
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If you bring creative professors together with dedicated students in a state-of-the-art facility, the possibilities are infinite,
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In such a budget, should NASA receive almost a 6 percent increase? Is it the highest domestic spending priority? I don't think so, and I doubt my colleagues will either,
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For the life of me, I can't understand why there wasn't a greater response sooner, ... We knew three or four days in advance that this was going to be a horrendous weather event; why didn't more action take place in advance?
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The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand.
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The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job.
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Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme.
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Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome.
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But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy.
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About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.
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Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation.
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For the second straight year, craft beer is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. alcoholic beverage industry. In 2005, craft beer experienced a 9 percent increase in volume, nearly triple that of the growth experienced in the wine and spirits industry.