I think we have to be very careful. I share Ms. DeLauro's feeling that if we all paid our fair share, and we spent money wisely not only on the nondefense discretionary side, but on the defense discretionary.

When the cost of failure far exceeds the price of progress.

So that effectively the costs--the consequential cost of that, 2 million people, very, very substantial number, in my view probably in excess of the savings that would purportedly be made.

the notion that somehow the Federal Government doesn't play a key role in both primary and secondary and higher education is wrong and will lead to the deterioration of our country's competitiveness worldwide if that is pursued.

We need to make sure that when we spend the taxpayers' money--and I am one of those who believes we need to invest, as you know--we need to make sure that that tax money is spent effectively.

If you invest in your children, if you invest in people's health, mental health, and education status, that you will have lesser costs.

The cost of failure far exceeds the price of progress.

He had a toothache. It went for some period of time, and it became abscessed. He went to the emergency room. The abscess went to his brain, and he died.

I am very concerned about the cuts to the extramural grants that will adversely affect the inclination of people to go into basic biomedical research. I think it is a crisis, and we will see other countries going past us very quickly in…

Education is an investment in skill development.

We passed a very significant piece of legislation, the infrastructure bill, which includes $65,000,000,000 for rural broadband.

This is a wonderful, wonderful device to make sure that we include everybody in the opportunities that America and the world has to offer.