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Mr. President, our democracy is protected by its institutional checks on unlimited power. The three branches of government are not the only manifestation of the careful balancing achieved by the Framers of the Constitution. Within the…
Intelligence isn't any good unless it's shared.
There was intelligence somewhere in the system about potential violence, but it just never got to the Capitol Police.
Well, I will tell you, having visited the Southern border in late March, testing was being done, but people had been there for weeks at a time with no testing, and there were people, adults who were released into the community with no…
That makes no sense to me and seems very shortsighted.
I will tell you that our staff's investigation found that $850 million out of the testing budget and another $850 million out of the allocation for the stockpile were instead used to deal with the crisis at the Southern border.
I just think it is important that we see it and we have to try to rise above this kind of behavior.
The fact remains that if we had the Southern border under control, we would be using the $850 million designated for testing to buy more rapid tests.
Over the past 2 years, Congress has appropriated $82.6 billion specifically for testing.
Has any of that money been used for non-testing related purposes at the border?
I don't believe that we are in the position that we are in now due to a lack of funding, but rather a lack of planning.
I hope that there is a close relationship between your Department and the Architect of the Capitol.
Are we working on preexisting coordination and communication plans so that we do not have to make it up on the fly?
I hope that extends to the intelligence side as well.
Please convey the deep appreciation and thanks from all of us that we care about what they do.
We have to have people that are thinking the unthinkable and saying, okay, what happens if?
Mr. President I rise today with my colleague, Senator Ben Ray Lujan, to introduce the Neuroscience Center of Excellence Act of 2021, legislation that would establish a Neuroscience Center of Excellence at the Food and Drug Administration…