If you can provide the utility structure, including water, at a rate that is more affordable, the chances of manufacturing returning to the U.S. from someplace abroad is enhanced.

I serve on the Appropriations subcommittee that has jurisdiction over your commission.

I am an optimist, in the sense that I believe we are not going to have another--at least another series of continuing resolutions.

So Senator Blunt's subcommittee and the inclusion of a $2 billion increase at NIH, plus the specific issues related to brain and Alzheimer's, would have a significant consequence on the ability to advance the cause, elimination, cure…

Thank you for the opportunity to have a conversation today.

Thank you very much. I wish you well.

I have offered this admonition, if that is a safe thing to say, that we are often told as Members of Congress that we do not want to be meddling in the 'politics of deciding where research dollars should be spent.'

I don't care if it's energy, education, small business, farming and ranching, or whatever, the regulatory overkill is just unbelievable.

With those folks being our job creators, we need to act as partners with businesses and not against them to ensure high employment and economic growth across our State and the Nation.

Today we have some colleagues who want to continue to advocate for a return to a very narrow standard that has perpetuated some of those problems for the working families.

You do this because you have confidence in them to use your trademark, your business model, and the reputation of the franchise you have strongly built.

The uncertainty this new standard brings is open-ended.

I fear when potential franchisees hear of this standard, they will choose not to invest into business in their community or in what could turn out to be a family-run business.

the VA is required to provide services to those who cannot receive the service they need within 30 days

I'm really pleased to see the hard work your office has done to advance the interoperability of health IT.

Access to medical care is a real problem, and that has to be considered.

I want to thank you and Senator Wyden for working on a bipartisan bill.

Senator Wyden, thank you very much for coming up with the term 'byzantine regulatory process.'