
I want to first express my appreciation to Senator Blunt and Senator Murray for their leadership last year on the significant increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health, which I am glad to support.
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I want to first express my appreciation to Senator Blunt and Senator Murray for their leadership last year on the significant increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health, which I am glad to support.

Mr. Chairman, thank you for this follow-up hearing. It gives us an opportunity to check in again with the status of what can be gleaned now from the Jackson Heart Study.

I am pleased that the NIH has shown a commitment to including IDeA States in the Pediatric Clinical Trials Network.

The Vice President is talking about making researchers who use NIH funds share their data.

Is EPA insisting on a Cadillac for these communities when actually a used Chevrolet would do all right?

Lead in the water, completely unacceptable; children swimming in lakes polluted by raw sewage, absolutely unacceptable anywhere.

Do you believe that field artillery should also be a modernization focus area for the Marines?

You should not have to wait until right before deployment to get yourself up to speed to be ready to go. You would expect the Marine Corps to be ready tonight.

Well, just put that on the record. That'll be great.

How might these approaches impact Marine ground modernization priorities? How could modernization priorities change?

Has construction or site preparation completely halted because of the protest?

Over the past year, the Army and the Marine Corps have explored developing new 5.56mm ammunition for their service rifles.

Let me just conclude, here, on behalf of my Ranking Member and me.

The vitality of the 30-year shipbuilding plan is essential to the strength of our shipbuilding industrial base.

Our sailors and marines are at the forefront of our rebalance to Asia, our ongoing operations against the Islamic State, our responses to a resurgent Russia, and efforts to deter rogue states such as Iran and North Korea.

Senator Levin is a distinguished and thoughtful American statesman and was as evenhanded a chairman as I have ever served with in my 21 years in the House and Senate.