Roy Blunt: “The 10-percent increase in the budget is not going to happen.”

The subcommittee is in recess until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 7. Thank you all.

Through the strong, bipartisan action of this Subcommittee's leaders, Chairman Roy Blunt and Ranking Member Patty Murray, Congress is helping the agency regain lost ground after years of effectively flat budgets.

I look forward to seeing this bill on the floor sometime between now and the end of this year.

when I gave my first speech on the Senate floor 12 years ago or when I cast my first vote in the House 26 years ago, I had really no way to anticipate the challenges and opportunities that were ahead of us. I come to the floor today…