Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I thank my very good friend, and I certainly appreciate his kind words. The good news is I am not done yet. We have a lot of work to do, and this is yet one more piece that we are going to be driving forward. But, certainly, I rise in support of this legislation, the ARPA-H authorization bill. While I have been a longtime supporter of many different versions of this bill, I thank, in particular, Chairman Pallone, my Republican Leader Rodgers, certainly Anna Eshoo--who is my good friend--and Brett Guthrie for their leadership on working together on language with the goal of really making this issue bipartisan and one that is going to work. I am glad that we came together to add even more important guardrails to ensure that this bill, ARPA-H, works as it was intended as well as, hopefully, have a very strong bipartisan vote a little bit later this afternoon. This bill is going to establish an entity not unlike the Defense Advanced Research Projects entity--that was our goal--DARPA. It is going to be game-changing, health research. Like DARPA, this entity is going to be focused on producing research on things that, frankly, may be too risky for the private sector. It is going to move at a faster pace than the current structure. There may be a high failure rate, but its successes are going to have the potential to be absolutely groundbreaking, answering the prayers of millions.…”