Thank you for being here today, but also congratulations on your fairly new role as NIH Director.
We have got to answer. Do you want to know why the rural America, and urban and rural America is getting further and further apart, is becau...
They want to save lives. They don't want anyone to go through what they have gone through.
The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is...
I was pleased to see a focus on biomedical research related to the Cancer Moonshot across HHS agencies.
Do you all acknowledge the job--can you acknowledge the job losses that came when they did implement it the last time?
So we thought we crossed every hurdle, crossed every T and dotted every I; it is just time to implement it.
I commend you for that. However, unfortunately, the budget also continues proposals for new partisan mandatory programs that would spend too...
This $40 million cut is based on false claims of the declining demand for the program...
I mean, how do you justify a 65 percent increase in this when it was just increased, I guess, what, 4 years ago under the Trump administrati...
Concerning to me too is a proposed $10 million for new discretionary group program for funding harm reduction grants.
FAFSA completions are down 36 percent nationally compared to this time last year.
I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs.
Expensive new Federal programs, like free college, are ill-advised and unlikely to be considered.
West Virginia needs fewer inefficient and expensive regulations and more job creation.
We are spending more on giving money away than we ever did on education. It makes no sense to me at all.
We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.
We simply cannot afford to add another $750 billion to the national debt.
