Mike Gravel on science investment

Information from an interview with TechCrunch

Senator Gravel has stated he is in favor of eliminating the quota on H1B visas and that the US education system should be our number 1 priority. .

we have a higher education system that it is to be admired but it is slowly deteriorating. When you stop and realize the cutback on Chinese students, Japanese students, Indian students, foreign students in general coming to American universities and going to other universities in other parts of the world is the beginning of the demise of our ascendancy in higher education, and its because of the visa problems...its this national paranoia that we’re fed with fear of foreigners, and so you’re going to feel it in the high tech area because you’re gonna see the new high tech areas centered in China and in Japan and in India and though we may have a lot of entrepreneurialism, they are going to develop their own sense of entrepreneurialism when we don’t let them into this country and participate in what we have to offer.”

Gravel also proposed in remarks to the New Hampshire Institute of Politics to restore funding of the National Science Foundation to pre-2004 levels