Political Quotes

“I rise today on behalf of hardworking public servants who were using their expertise and training for scientific advancement that could save lives and preserve American leadership in technology and innovation. Unfortunately, the Trump administration forced them out of their jobs and out of their laboratories. I had a chance to meet with many of these individuals over the last few months. We had a job fair in my district not that long ago, and a couple of people came through had a chance to chat with me. Unfortunately, we didn't have anything that met the caliber of the background and expertise that they possessed. One was a Ph.D. researcher at NIH who had been doing clinical trials on Alzheimer's research. She told me that what had happened was she had been laid off. Everybody in her lab had been laid off. So what that meant was the trial that they had been running for years got shut down. As we all know with clinical trials, Alzheimer's, cancer, and others--and I will come back to those--these aren't light switches, Mr. Speaker. We can't just flip the switch and start it back.”