The result will be a crippled agency, a cop that is severely underfunded and whose ability to enforce the law will be at the mercy of whatever the regulated companies do or don't want to see enforced.

In addition to the hiring freeze, President Trump's budget blueprint calls for cutting congressional support by as much as a billion dollars for the FDA next year.

Does it worry you that at the same time that we're trying to boost the number of staff implementing the FDA's mission that the President is trying to cut the number of FDA staff by preventing the agency from filling vacant positions and by…

I don't understand why one of the first things that President Trump did when he took office was to start cutting the number of people at the FDA.

President Trump seems to think that user fees are a substitute for Congress doing its job. He's wrong on this.

since coming to Washington, I have observed something interesting about Republican politicians. Republicans talk a big game about respecting women, but when it comes time to vote on laws to help real, live, American women, a lot of…

Republicans are in charge of the Senate, and so far they haven't put up for a vote in this Congress a single piece of original legislation to help working families--not one. They haven't fixed a single piece of our crumbling…

Breakthroughs will not happen if we are not funding our scientists and keeping in the fight as they push every day to make progress.

We will lose our researchers if we do not fund them.

We need more money for NIH, not less.

This disease is also wildly expensive. I know that the Chair talked about this. The United States spends $259 billion a year on health care related to Alzheimer's disease, including $175 billion for Medicare and Medicaid.

A growing financial sector does not necessarily mean a growing economy.