We have lost more Americans to drug overdoses since 1999 than the number of American lives lost in wars or conflicts since the Civil War, and it is absolutely heartbreaking.

The Department of Labor should be focused on workforce training and creating new jobs, not mandating new burdens.

One out of every three franchise owners say they wouldn't own a small business without the franchise business model.

The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.

I appreciate the somewhat tempered approach this year compared to the previous budgets.

Thank you, Chair Baldwin.

FAFSA completions are down 36 percent nationally compared to this time last year.

Concerning to me too is a proposed $10 million for new discretionary group program for funding harm reduction grants.

Bring manufacturing back to America. You can't bring manufacturing back if you relax the rules and where you get your critical minerals and where you put produce them.

We simply cannot afford to add another $750 billion to the national debt.

I am concerned that this budget attempts to go around the FRA, the Fiscal Responsibility Act.

Small businesses are the heart of our economy and our communities, especially in West Virginia where more than 98% of our businesses are small businesses.

What can NIH do to help expand the medical research footprint in rural states like West Virginia so we can tackle high disease burdens and low life expectancy?

We have to--you are in the Education Department, you have to educate people on what is available.

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 administration?

This rule pressures financial experts to shift potential gains away from American retirees, and into the White House's radical climate agenda.

If you would do me a favor with your able staff here, if they would just check and find out if that's accurate, the amount of jobs that we know have been lost before or our statistics shows, and the amount of revenue it's caused to our…

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.