I'm proud to represent Long Beach and the Port of Long Beach, and Port of Long Beach and LA, of course, are the largest port complex in the United States as it relates to cargo container volume.

I think we should also be as honest about what we are actually doing here.

Why do we have this religious experience with climate rather than using common sense?

What we can't do is push this problem onto my grandchildren, and cripple their generation with burdensome debt and interest payments.

There's been no back room deals, no brinkmanship, there's been no blackmail involved in this bill sent to us from our colleagues in the House.

But we also want to see responsible spending, and we know we cannot give the White House another credit card.

There's not a single person on our side of the aisle that wants the country to default on its debt.

Today's White House and the Democrat Party become the European Green Socialist party.

The deal that the Republicans on the House side have put forward does both of those, responsible spending, and solves the debt limit crisis.

I wish you and the Ranking Member well and will pledge to be a good member of this subcommittee to see that we achieve good results for NIH and other things.

There is plenty of evidence that at NIH that does occur.

I'm looking for a commitment by you and by NIH that there will be a prioritization that NCI competitive cancer grants will be funded in fiscal year 2024.

What we can't do is push this problem onto my grandchildren, and cripple their generation with burdensome debt and interest payments.

I want to make sure that it doesn't come at the expense of basic clinical research at NCI.

The deal that the Republicans on the House side have put forward does both of those, responsible spending, and solves the debt limit crisis.

Today's White House and the Democrat Party become the European Green Socialist party.

There's been no back room deals, no brinkmanship, there's been no blackmail involved in this bill sent to us from our colleagues in the House.

But we also want to see responsible spending, and we know we cannot give the White House another credit card.