I fully understand the importance of immigrant-owned businesses in our community and the contributions they make.

You’re vaccinated, guess what? You get to return to a more normal lifestyle. If you’re not vaccinated, you’re still a danger -- you’re still in danger as well, so get vaccinated.

It is certainly a black eye, you know, to our Nation to have children go hungry every single day.

I want to say how uncomfortable it makes me when I hear the term 'food insecurity.'

The President is messaging this as the way to compete with China, but I would argue that we will not beat China by copying its strategy.

For sure, Federal leadership is going to be needed to coordinate and address the swell of the long-haul COVID patients.

I think there is absolutely bipartisan agreement to that point.

This research suggests that in the United States, where there have been more than 32 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, there could be millions of long-haulers with chronic symptoms.

We must also secure taxpayer-funded research and technologies from adversaries, especially from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

I look forward to working with Chairwoman Johnson, Ranking Member Lucas, and Chairwoman Stevens in moving the 'NSF for the Future Act' through the Committee in a bipartisan process.

As we make these investments, we should also ensure we avoid duplicating the R&D activities of other Federal agencies.

We cannot allow the CCP to advance its authoritarianism on the backs of American taxpayer-funded research.

This morning's hearing is to examine the trends and research into long COVID, a chronic syndrome occurring in patients infected by COVID-19.

My fear is that, as acute COVID uncovered our Nation's failures at emergency response and equitable healthcare, long COVID will uncover our failures at fairly treating chronic disease and disability.

I look forward to our continuing work together.

I want to begin by thanking you for following through on President Biden's commitment to reexamine the States' One Rule.

flooding the labor market with low-wage labor just at the time when working Americans are trying to regain the prosperity.

the majority seems to be working overtime to make it worse.