I was pleased to see a focus on biomedical research related to the Cancer Moonshot across HHS agencies.

I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs.

If you would do me a favor with your able staff here, if they would just check and find out if that's accurate, the amount of jobs that we know have been lost before or our statistics shows, and the amount of revenue it's caused to our…

This is stupid. And we just keep piling it on like it is-- there is no end to it.

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.

Alzheimer's and dementia related research must remain a national priority.

West Virginia needs fewer inefficient and expensive regulations and more job creation.

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

We have got to answer. Do you want to know why the rural America, and urban and rural America is getting further and further apart, is because rural America has been being left behind and getting screwed.

I appreciate the somewhat tempered approach this year compared to the previous budgets.

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

This Administration's student debt cancellation programs undermine these programs and force hard-working taxpayers to shoulder the cost.

We are spending more on giving money away than we ever did on education. It makes no sense to me at all.

This will be a challenging funding year as Chair Baldwin aligned that out.

FAFSA completions are down 36 percent nationally compared to this time last year.

Your budget requests a $2 billion increase over FY23 to this agency to carry out these programs.

The last time the NLRB tried this, a study found that this policy led to 376,000 fewer jobs and $33.3 billion in lost output across the economy.

I want to thank Chair Baldwin for working together, bipartisan, and the success of our process depends on finding common ground.