So, Steve, you have earned more than your fair share of relaxation time, but we are grateful for your extraordinary service. It’s better positioned for the jobs and industries of the future. Because of his leadership, this country is further along on the path to energy independence. And that’s typical of the incredible contributions that he’s made to this country. Steve has been a great friend, a tremendous colleague over the past four years, working on a whole range of energy issues, but also designing a cap to plug a hole in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico when nobody else could figure it out. I especially want to thank Secretary Steven Chu, who announced this morning that he will be leaving the Department of Energy. All right, I just wanted to make sure they all showed up.

Where is everybody? Where did Subra go? (Laughter.) There you go. Subra Suresh, as well as the members of my Cabinet who are with us here today. And I want to congratulate them on earning America’s highest honor for invention and discovery - the National Medals of Science, and the National Medals of Technology and Innovation.īefore we start, I want to acknowledge the head of the National Science Foundation, Dr. Well, it is my incredible pleasure and honor to welcome this incredibly talented group of men and women in the White House.

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