I joined our colleagues today at lunch, and one of the conversations I had with one of my Democratic colleagues was how surprising, perhaps, but certainly how pleasing it was that today the Senate, in a bipartisan fashion, addressed some…

I am an opponent to the administration's reductions in NIH spending, and I'll work with my colleagues once again to see if we can't continue the progress that we've made in additional funding for medical research.

While reviewing reported private market rates, did CMS consider the differences between hospital laboratories, physician office laboratories, and independent laboratories?

I would imagine that it is still there. I hope it is still there, but under Mr. Putin it is a whole different matter.

We are in dire circumstances, and as you have indicated, we have given and given.

The President proposes and we dispose.

I am not afraid to say that I believe in science.

We must continue to focus on agriculture research.

I think we've focused a lot of attention on preexisting condition, and it seems to me there is a lot of, and rightfully so, a lot of effort being made to make certain that individuals who have preexisting condition continue to have access…

Let's figure out how to make sure that the money we do spend is spent in the best way possible.

In the last 2\1/2\ centuries, 119 of our Nation's educators have tragically lost their lives while serving both their students and their communities, a terrible sacrifice they didn't expect when they followed their calling to help our…

I would like to take a moment and recognize an important piece of legislation that is scheduled for a vote on the House floor today, the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act. This bipartisan legislation will…

Last weekend I was honored to join the Kinsley, Kansas, Summer Food Service Program at the Kinsley-Offerle Junior-Senior High School. It always makes my day when I walk into a room filled with children I delivered in the past decade and…

If there is no action at all by Congress, then the Choice Program will dry up by mid-August.

The emergency is changing the law to allow you to spend money that you have, although it certainly sounds like it creates a likelihood of fiscal shortfall.

The memos are different, and there is a significant consequence to the difference.

Choice is alive and well.

This gets me excited.