"I want to focus on access to oral health, dental care in rural areas, because it's really hard."
"We have improved dramatically since then, but we still have far too many communities where access is an issue."
"In so many of our small, rural communities, their power is diesel generation. We want to get them off it."
"There is about a $1.5 billion in deferred maintenance issue for over 200 bulk fuel farms throughout rural Alaska."
"We need some help with your teams to identify how we can address a problem."
"We can't seem to get the same level of enthusiasm or gusto when it comes to funding it."
"We have got to figure out what the funding plan is going to be for a port like Nome given the national security imperative."
"Well, let us keep--again, we have got to have open lines of communication here, and we can't have everybody holding their breath waiting for the next funding cycle."
"I am a little bit concerned going into the 2025 process and beyond that we are going to appropriately prioritize these in the budget process."
"I'm not giving up. It's not about Trump, and it's not about me. It's about our country."
"if men went through menopause, we'd have an institute at NIH."