we needed that time to, frankly, put it together.

We knew it was going to take 3 years. And so Henry Waxman was my counterpart...

We have 881 days left in this term of this President’s administration. We feel a huge sense of urgency.

I said, well, I will take this to the Speaker and he is going to tell me I got to find the money for it, and we did.

we had a trust in each other.

We wouldn't have had a vaccine for COVID, might have been 8, 10, maybe even a year afterwards.

Everybody has something, a different perspective to bring on it. So, you better believe we are in touch with people all the time, the White House and the cabinet, and we are going to bring this across the finish line one way or another.

Our system is so bureaucratic, so big, so slow to acquire new technology.

We’ve got to address climate change. Not only is the west on fire, our hair should be on fire about this.

Is there anything that HUD can do to end this? Can HUD consider withholding CDBG funds to localities that over-assess property tax at such a high rate, in violation of the Fair Housing Act?

Thank you, Madam Chair, for holding this hearing, and I want to thank all of the witnesses for being here today for this really important conversation.

It is unacceptable, and, quite frankly, it is embarrassing.

But I got to tell you, then-Vice President Biden was terrific.

Not only that, but also, the President, to his credit, is doing this plug for ARPA-H...

there has to be a consequence to the action, right?

I reached out to a really good partner, Diana DeGette, and she and I worked on this.

I am keeping with the same formula that I had when I came, and that is to work with all of my colleagues on you name the issue.

Mike Enzi, chairman of the Budget Committee over there in the Senate, said you got to pay for it.