U.S. House of Representatives

This move is an illegal power grab by the Trump Administration—plain and simple.

We write to call on you to abandon any plan to exert political control over NIH’s grant-making decisions.

Congress must step in to establish guardrails to protect American biomedical science.

Injecting political interference into the NIH grantmaking process will irreparably harm America’s biomedical research enterprise, override scientific expertise, and potentially set back lifesaving medical breakthroughs by decades.

Decisions about which National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants to fund should be guided only by science, and what research is most likely to advance new treatments and cures, or the next breakthrough to save or improve a…

It’s about time, and in fact it is well past time, for this Committee, the Judiciary Committee, to move on from and stop spreading political rumors and get down to the truth.

If this hearing was really about getting answers, Committee Republicans would be doing everything they could to obtain a copy of Volume II and urge the Department of Justice to allow Smith to discuss his investigation.

But instead of condemning this egregious criminal conduct… my Republican colleagues are spreading baseless conspiracy theories and attacking career prosecutors and FBI agents, claiming the so-called ‘deep state’ is out to get Donald Trump.

Tomorrow, finally, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear from former Special Counsel Jack Smith.

State veterans’ homes should never have to turn away elderly and disabled veterans because lifesaving medications are too expensive.

That job belongs to Congress, not the executive branch.

When we come out in numbers, they cannot take us all.

Whether it’s the issue about Palestine or many others, whether it’s about people trying to fire those who are forming a union in their workplace, whether it’s people trying to speak up about a number of different issues, we have to respond…

Those are legacy things to address climate. They’re legacy things to address livability.

I should have been down on those agencies a little more, but I will tell you this, in the scheme of things, all the fraud that's been prosecuted, by the way, and all the fraud that's probably out there is less than the ballroom at the…

Fraud — should have stopped it sooner.

That would honestly be the best possible problem we could have as a country.

What we're saying is that we can do much better," said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.

Sen. Husted's bill is a fraud. It's voluntary. No company has to do it. The bill we have is mandatory. It is much stronger and is what is needed," replied Schumer.

A balance is what we're after. I think the conversation tomorrow will help us along that way.

Instead of just smothering this with red tape, which is always the government's reflex, and I think would be wrong and frankly dangerous to national security if we did it here, we want to continue the innovation.

The will of the City’s voters should not be set aside in the manner proposed in the bill.

The prior administration’s over-reliance on short-term budget gimmicks and ‘one-shots’ have seriously undermined the City’s long-term stability.

The residents of Jersey City are currently suffering from a fiscal crisis caused largely by the irresponsible decisions made by the City’s prior administration.