We're falling behind in our preparation for known threats, and we're not laying the intellectual and the scientific groundwork to prepare for the next round of threats.

If Congress is truly concerned about the very real threat of contagious diseases, then we need to start making some smart decisions right now.

Congress is terrible about spending money to make sure we're ready for these crises before they occur.

Infectious diseases pose an enormous threat to human health and to the world economy.

We need to have sustainable funding that people can count on year after year.

Protecting our forests from threats has so many benefits, soil erosion, protect habitats for wildlife, take in atmospheric carbon.

climate change is already altering our nation's forests in significant ways and those alterations are likely to accelerate in the future.

Would you commit if we reduce these regulations to giving a cost estimate and to passing those savings on along to our students?

the biggest banks in the country to continue to receive taxpayer protection for some of their riskiest derivatives and swaps.

there have been no consequences for the most recent leak.

We're putting $160 billion into universities all across this country. ... we want to see something on the other side.