Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said the U.S.

needs to invest in science the way it did after World War II.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York said the U.S.

needs to invest in science the way it did after World War II.

"The premise is simple, if we want American workers and American companies to keep leading the world, the federal government must invest in science, basic research and innovation, just as we did decades after the Second World War," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.

It also said the Senate this year has already held as many roll call votes on amendments than it did in the last Congress, when the Senate was under Republican control.

Rand Paul, R-Ky., said Congress should be cutting the foundation's budget, not increasing it.

I'm pretty sure now as the decade has moved on, we're looking over our shoulder and realizing that the competition is gaining," said Cantwell, the chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

"This is an opportunity for the United States to strike a blow on behalf of answering the unfair competition that we are seeing from communist China," said Sen.

Ro Khanna, D-Calif., who has been working with Schumer for two years on legislation that's included in the bill, called it the biggest investment in science and technology since the Apollo spaceflight program a half century ago

"I'm quite certain we will get a really good product on the president's desk," Schumer said