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I implore you to see what is at stake here as Fort Bragg needs this investment to be able to respond to the next global crisis.

We are asking a heck of a lot of our teachers and our staff while paying them too little.

We have got a bill that creates incentives for teachers to stay in the profession.

We have about 4,100 unfilled teaching positions, paraprofessionals, other staff.

We have got to do something legislatively and play a role in helping to get our Nation in a better place.

I think this is an indispensable national priority that I think we just got a serious lesson how important these investments are.

This won't be the last one we see. We know that the biosphere will continue to throw things at us.

We have lost a million Americans in a year, or 18 months or so. That is an extraordinary thing.

If the resources aren't there early and often, you don't have the resources.

I want to stress that each dollar invested in the NIH is, in my view, a down payment on our future.

I fear this work may be short-changed by the hyperfocus on the new ARPA-H.

I certainly pledge to work with my friends across the aisle to rebuild a bipartisan coalition of support for basic science and research.

I fear that the mistrust in our Government public health system has eroded to a dangerous level.

I strongly believe that ARPA-H would be more successful in its unique mission if it were established as an independent agency within Health and Human Services.

If we want to raise people out of poverty, if we want to ensure that Americans have the opportunity to enter the middle class, and if we believe that workers deserve a decent wage for an honest day's work, then we must enact a meaningful…

Raising the Federal minimum wage is an issue of great importance to me and many of the Members of this Subcommittee.

Therefore, it certainly looks like it is cheaper to willingly violate the F-L-S-A than it is to pay employees what they are entitled to receive.

Ultimately, wage theft prevents workers from taking meaningful steps to enter the middle class.