"Help us help you by educating the public that it is their tax dollars that are doing this through NIH."
"That return on investment is harder to measure right now."
"Over 80 percent of the NIH funding goes to extramural grants to you all."
"I don't even pay any attention to what is going on with the administration because I don't care. They're a distraction. The family is a distraction, the president is a distraction."
"this budget request reflects the importance of the Department of Energy's national security responsibilities."
"we have got a WRDA target that is about $375 million or something like that, a million above what the request was for"
"Hopefully this will get at addressing that backlog maintenance in these various agencies."
"It is the Land Act, which is going to reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund for 7 years under mandatory funding."
"Mr. Chairman, I just want you to know that in parts of Idaho, we consider Californians an invasive species."
"We are never going to please everybody. That is what represented democracy is all about."
"I think we need to win some of those decisions but first of all, we have got to get our house in order."