We have to do better.

While we are still working on FAFSA, this cycle, we know that next year is right around the corner, and students cannot bear another year of delays.

Improving rural health outcomes goes hand-in-hand with investing in the healthcare workforce.

I have heard from so many parents in the State of Wisconsin who have lost a child to fentanyl poisoning.

It's been more than 3 years since Congress appropriated $1.2 billion for Long COVID research.

Improving rural health outcomes goes hand-in-hand with investing in the healthcare workforce.

What does Congress force you to do that in any kind of rational private sector business you would not do?

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. It is fitting, at least for me, that we are debating this today because one of the very first bills I got passed as a freshman Member of Congress working across the aisle with my fellow…

Congress does, what it always does, I mean they will throw more money at the problem.

What does Congress force you to do that in any kind of rational private sector business you would not do?

That was an insane bill that was passed in 2000.

This gets me to my next point, and it's the constraints that the Postmaster General talked about.

I have been proud to lead the effort to reauthorize the National Apprenticeship Act with my colleague, Senator Lisa Murkowski.

Telehealth should be a part of the equation, we learned that during COVID.

We must do all that we can to protect, retain, and strengthen the nursing workforce.

Congress does, what it always does, I mean they will throw more money at the problem.

I understand what an important role biomedical research plays in treating and curing disease, bolstering our economic growth, and ensuring America is a global leader in innovation.

Because of House Republicans insistence on cutting funding for domestic programs, last year's Labor HHS allocation was more than $2 billion less than in fiscal year 2023.