Rural areas have been left behind, the money has not gone appropriately for the challenges they have.

Well, we tried to get rid of it, but the President over--he vetoed us.

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

In my opinion, this really politicizes a really important part of our financial fabric in this country.

I am hopeful that we will, once again, be able to come together and produce a bipartisan 2025 bill.

This is not complicated, the University of Florida is not a daycare, and we do not treat protesters like children.

Do you all acknowledge the job--can you acknowledge the job losses that came when they did implement it the last time?

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

We have got to do better here. I mean, we are really losing a generation.

Thank you for being here today, but also congratulations on your fairly new role as NIH Director.

Instead, we should be focusing on bipartisan student debt reforms that take commonsense steps to fill the gaps in our workforce.

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

For me, biomedical research at NIH is a priority for me and has been for these long bicameral bipartisan priorities as well.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

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?

NIH is not just great biomedical research institution, it's also a driver of economic growth.

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

Recently, the President vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution overturning the National Labor Relations Board NLRB rule, redefining who is a joint employer.