It requires real money. It requires new mandatory funding for the NIH.

The most effective work for keeping Americans safe does not happen when the cameras are rolling and the world is focused on the latest outbreak.

Thank you very much for holding this hearing. It is powerfully important.

it is irresponsible not to study the science. We cannot be afraid of conducting basic medical research.

Democrats are going to continue urging bipartisan work to ensure women everywhere have the ability to plan their pregnancies, especially in light of this virus.

But Congress does not show the same interest in taking steps before these crises occur to make sure that our country is actually prepared when disasters strike.

The way I see this, Congress is strangling medical research.

I am very hopeful that here in Congress we can put the politics aside and work together to ensure that we do provide much needed tools and support.

I think that one of the most important safeguards in this new law is a bipartisan provision that Senator Gardner and I wrote that requires the States to report better data about how their kids are doing.

If we want better outcomes, we need better data to figure out where we're failing to reach our students and where we're succeeding.

Congress entrusted this responsibility to the Department to make sure that when the States receive billions of taxpayer dollars to improve education for our most vulnerable kids that those States actually use that money for our most…

The new education law gives States a lot more flexibility in determining how to educate our kids while it also establishes a Federal baseline to ensure that the States actually use Federal dollars to support teachers and students who most…