Secretary Rice, thank you so much for being here today.
And it is part of costs of the war, I think you would agree. The cost of caring for our veterans is----
I’m also pleased to see the additional funding has been added for equipment, including the armored security vehicles.
Many of us have encouraged the administration to increase those programs.
I really agree that it is an emergency situation for those families, and they paid the ultimate price for our country.
But we do not see one dime in this budget. In this supplemental cost-of-war emergency funding, we do not see one dime fo...
But there is--but there is no money there to do it. It's a--this is a supplemental----
We are all in agreement that we face a serious public health threat that could cripple our health care system.
We need to find ways to make it happen and to fund these solutions at all levels.
But what it does is, it doesn't allow that program to expand.
I plan to fight for this funding again.
I think it's great. I'm a huge supporter.
I think we know that chronic disease that is caused by obesity and unhealthy lifestyles is costing us billions of dollar...
We're going to fund this program, and I think we've got enough support in Congress to do that.
At a time when we know that prevention, that community-based models work the best, that the uninsured numbers are growin...
PNNL is a very valuable asset to the State of Washington and it's going to be an enduring asset to the Tri-Cities commun...
I guarantee you a year from now if we are sitting here having these hearings and we have invested a vast sum of our taxp...
I think you're rightfully arguing that without stability in these countries, these countries will be a breeding ground f...
