I can tell you that Russia, China, India, Brazil, all of the space-faring nations are very, very interested in this, and if we don't support our satellite industry, I feel that we could fall behind.

Mr. President, today I would like to honor and pay tribute to my former staffer Jeremy Shull. Jeremy came to my office in 2004 as a fellow. He quickly advanced and became the deputy military legislative assistant in a short period of time…

I think that making spectrum available and providing a supportive environment for satellite will keep us in the lead relative to all of our adversaries.

I think everything we can do within this Committee to deal with the staggering statistics that all of us share...

Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that I may hereafter be considered to be the first sponsor of H.R. 3545, a bill originally introduced by Representative Murphy of Pennsylvania, for the purposes of adding cosponsors and requesting…

I had dinner with Paul Kagame just less than a week ago, and he brought this up.

You cannot do more with less. You can only do less with less.

It is my pleasure to welcome all of you to the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education for a hearing to discuss the role of facilities and administrative costs.

I come to you today to give you some insights.

I reject the administration's proposal to reduce our investment in NIH research.

Today we are talking about a number of factors, including how the NIH might be more involved in the research.

We are all blessed, because we are in an institution that has the ability to push that edge of the envelope in order to be able to save lives.

Well, that is--I have no more passion and advocate for this committee than my ranking member; I can tell you that.

I have suggested for the last several years that we do something that is very similar, the Accelerating Biomedical Research Act, which would allow us to go above the caps.

To Dr. Espinosa's point, this committee, just for the record, has done a lot in the area of Alzheimer's research for years.

Let's go--with all due respect, we have these expert witnesses. We have our own experts too up here.

We need to maintain or increase, ideally, the budget at NIH.

I urge my colleagues to consider increased NIH funding for Down syndrome research, especially studies that incorporate much needed cross-institute collaboration.