We're not going to allow it to be owned by anybody that's not the average citizen that can't get on, having the same opportunities everyone should have.

I share my colleagues concern about the President's budget cuts of more than $2.2 billion to NIH overall.

We're having a meeting in West Virginia tomorrow morning. And I'm going to go back to--and I think----

But, I'm saying, when the airwaves--when there was fairness to the airwaves and to the public, they had to give a balanced approach, a balanced--equal time.

How did our country become so toxicity in the political arena? You know, it's what team you're on and what side you're on, how we can destroy each other. It's just awful. It's not who we are as a country.

I am proud to have worked with my colleagues to dedicate an additional $500 million to NIH for research on opioid addiction.

I do want to say that step one, though, is to have the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy at this hearing, at that table right there.

I think the Internet can be open, and it can be owned by every citizen in this great country of ours.

West Virginia is one of the known--I've been telling most of southern West Virginia, my areas hit the hardest, in some of the most rural areas, the most difficult terrain, that they can expect--

I have always supported strong funding for NIH because it is an investment that saves lives.

We can't afford to not invest in medical research.

Something's got to be done to save the country. And right now we're destroying each other.

I agree with former Chairman Cochran's assertion that the Committee did not intend for the UHF discount to be used as a loophole to the Congressionally-established 39 percent national ownership cap.

first of all, to my colleague from Indiana, there is nobody who has been a greater ally or greater friend than Senator Donnelly in some of the fights we have had, basically making sure that there is fairness between business and workers…

It's hard to imagine what 2,000 pounds of fentanyl is like, but my understanding is the tip of my little pinky fingernail is enough to be a lethal dose of fentanyl.

I just want to thank you and your department and the coordinating aspects of what you have done with the U.S. attorney's office.

Okay. Let me ask the question, Mr. Benner.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.