I am working to reintroduce my Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act, to help provide state and local health departments with the strong, sustained funding that they really need.

I have to say I am really appalled by recent reporting that an NIH-funded scientist who faced institutional disciplinary action because he was found to have sexually harassed colleagues was simply able to transfer his award from one…

If we want to continue to lead on the world stage, we have to continue our global dominance in biomedical research.

I am working to reintroduce my Public Health Infrastructure Saves Lives Act, to help provide state and local health departments with the strong, sustained funding that they really need.

One of the things we really saw in COVID was that we needed accurate data. You can't get ahead of an emergency and create a response to it if you don't have that.

I am certain you understand how strongly I feel about meeting that obligation.

It is time intensive, it is resource intensive, that is why it is so important to keep the funding streams coming.

our competitors, like China, are not waiting for us to work out our differences and fund our government.

What we get for these investments are really important discoveries that keep our Nation competitive.

If we want to continue to lead on the world stage, we have to continue our global dominance in biomedical research.

Come to the table. Work with us to simply pay our country's bills like we have so many times before.

if we want to stay ahead we can't just focus on defense spending, we have to invest in the many other programs that keep our country strong, and safe, and competitive.

our competitors, like China, are not waiting for us to work out our differences and fund our government.

My Prevent Pandemics Act, which was signed into law last year, includes directives to ASPR to assist state and local health departments in accessing the Strategic National Stockpile.

We cannot forget the millions of families who are fighting cancer and Alzheimer's, substance use disorders, long COVID, and so much more.

we have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.

if we want to stay ahead we can't just focus on defense spending, we have to invest in the many other programs that keep our country strong, and safe, and competitive.

I am certain you understand how strongly I feel about meeting that obligation.