Unnecessary Federal Science Research

Open Email to Lamar S Smith (TX), Chairman House Science, Space, & Technology Committee:

Dear Chairman Smith,
    This concerns the America Competes Act, which is said to authorize most of the country's basic government research spending. The controlling agency for the America Competes Act is the Department of Energy, which is not one of my favorites, since I have previously called for its demise. The DOE has a record of doing more damage to the country than any other single agency, unless it might be the Department of Education.
    It has come to my attention that your committee has proposed to give the DOE's Office of Science its own authorization bill and a 2% funding increase over this year's level.
    The agencies involved under the DOE are the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards & Technology, and the Department of Energy Office of Science. Democrats are proposing a 5% funding increase for each of the three agencies and continue energy programs [whatever that means]. The Senate has yet to hold a hearing on its proposal.
The National Science Foundation is the only federal agency whose mission includes support for all fields of fundamental science and engineering, except for medical sciences. It is involved in almost every branch of science that one can think of. Each year, NSF supports an average of about 200,000 scientists, engineers, educators and students at universities, laboratories and field sites all over the United States and throughout the world. It does this at a cost to the American taxpayers of $7 billion per year
The mission of the National Institute of Standards and Technology is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competitiveness by advancing measurement science, standards, and technology in ways that enhance economic security and improve our quality of life. While it is basically the old Bureau of Standards, which was and still is indispensable, present operations seem to be to spend money to convince the rest of the world how great we are in science. To do this, the NIST spent $750 billion of taxpayer money last year and requested $2.2 billion for this year.
The DOE Office of Science covers about any science one could think of. I couldn't find a mission statement. It supports 25,000 scientists in various endeavors and is spending $4.9 billion this year. It is requesting $5.1 billion for next year Some of the projects are:
Advanced Scientific Computing Research
Basic Energy Sciences
Biological and Environmental Research
Fusion Energy Sciences
High Energy Physics
Nuclear Physics
Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists
Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer
Total annual federal expenditures for science research is $41.7 billion. Your share for the Department of Energy is $12.7 billion.
While all the above designations for expenditures are fine, high sounding terms, as a scientist also interested in economics, I am not impressed.
Federal expenditures for fiscal year 2014 are expected to be $3.8 trillion. Revenues are expected to be $3.0 trillion. This leaves a deficit of $800 billion, which must be borrowed. As you know, this deficit in borrowing has been going on for several years and is building up to a level of lower creditworthiness for the country. We can expect that future borrowing costs, as interest, are bound to rise, which will make the problem worse.
You and your committee have exacerbated the situation by proposing for the DOE alone a 2% increase in spending, while Democrats propose a 5% increase in spending. That doesn't make sense to me. We are already in a hole and you want us to dig deeper. 
I would much appreciate your advising me on how you can justify this action with regard to such a conjectural and potentially pie-in-the-sky matter as federal science research.