I also want to highlight Representative Walberg and Tonko's Lead Poisoning Act, which I have cosponsored.

I want to really thank you also for looking at the Protecting Access to Lifesaving Screening, the PALS Act.

We have been sounding the alarm for years on this issue.

FERC is a small agency, but such an important mission.

Most folks have never heard of PFAS. In Michigan we found out the hard way. Again. Sadly, we know a little bit about water contamination. Think Flint, think lead. PFAS is bad, too. Really bad. The EPA has been slow at the switch. Three…

I reached out to a really good partner, Diana DeGette, and she and I worked on this.

What family doesn't have cancer or Parkinson's or something like that? What can we do to solve the problem?

We passed it 392 to 26. And we got through it a Senate filibuster.

I said, well, I will take this to the Speaker and he is going to tell me I got to find the money for it, and we did.

I am keeping with the same formula that I had when I came, and that is to work with all of my colleagues on you name the issue.

Paul Ryan, to his credit, he said, you know, we added $45 billion over 10 years for health research.

we needed that time to, frankly, put it together.

I try to do it. You know, Energy and Commerce, we want you on the committee, Dean.

Mike Enzi, chairman of the Budget Committee over there in the Senate, said you got to pay for it.

But I got to tell you, then-Vice President Biden was terrific.

Schumer found out what they were and then he stole them for a good cause, 9/11.

There is not a bill that I am going to work on that isn't bipartisan.

we had a trust in each other.

We are looking to introduce that bill soon to update what we did on Cures.

We wouldn't have had a vaccine for COVID, might have been 8, 10, maybe even a year afterwards.

We worked with every member. We listened.

We knew it was going to take 3 years. And so Henry Waxman was my counterpart...

We are going to change the procedure in committee.

Not only that, but also, the President, to his credit, is doing this plug for ARPA-H...

Instead of the majority's Green New Deal wish list, we ought to start with proven bipartisan issues.