I hope this is the evidence that I expect it to be of the amount of cooperation on both sides of the aisle, in the effort to get us through our legislative process and appropriations.

I am as concerned about our Nation as I have ever been.

We share that view of Ambassador Beasley, and we hope that is exactly the same with Ambassador McCain.

this month, during this year's first open hearing for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, national security and military leaders gave a worldwide threat assessment of our country and of our way of life. They described threats to…

I bet you expected when you invented this vaccine, you would come to Congress and get a hero's welcome.

I joined Senator Michael Crapo, R-Idaho and my colleagues in introducing the Lower Costs, More Cures Act.

The Ukrainian plea was for support of infrastructure to get grain moving in other directions.

I am hoping that the Department is finally, in my view, taking the life and death battles of Americans, the battles they are facing through the current OPTN system, seriously.

All of these facts, combined, are more than enough to halt the Liver Allocation Rules implementation.

This committee has acknowledged, as well, that there is a need for the funding for that stockpile to be increased.

However, this progress will be erased if Congress passes government drug price controls.

Americans enjoy unprecedented access to new, novel treatments.

We got to be careful we don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

But something needs to be change at the State Department and Consular Affairs.

How harmful and unfair the rule is to the Midwest and the South.

I would use this opportunity to express my gratitude for the leadership of Ambassador Beasley.

Democrats proposed price controls for prescription drugs could mean postponing a cure for Alzheimer's disease by decades.

I hope that you know, that your efforts on Capitol Hill do matter, and you should take great pride in the fact that they have mattered.