"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 terms of the capability they have in terms of personnel."
"It would be wonderful if in the future annual budgets would include additional funding to be able to invest in future projects because we are just at the beginning of this, of needing to reestablish t..."
"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."
"The pandemic was horrible, but it gave us an opportunity to reimagine, and this is one of those areas."
"I think in this country we have a 4-year or bust mentality, and it is hurting us."
"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."
"I would hope that every member of this committee would read Governor Cox of Utah's veto message on the issue."
"I will yield 3 minutes to the chair--to the ranking member, if that is possible?"
"It is very important I think to have the psychology of counselors, of educators, to understand there are some kids who want to be maybe computer people that after 2 years of a junior school or 2 years..."
"Treating this issue, as I believe it is being treated, as a divisive issue, as a pejorative issue, is unfortunate."
"If you invest in your children, if you invest in people's health, mental health, and education status, that you will have lesser costs."