Dear Colleagues, Thomas Mason and Persis Drell, respectively, the director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, have contributed their impressions of what effect the House budget cuts would have on US economic competitiveness. The article can be found in the Washington Post's "Topic A" column, available online at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/25/AR2011022505887.html?hpid=opinionsbox1 Sincerely, Norman Graf