Roy Blunt: “Why do you think they didn't comport to what you say your procedures were?”

Please continue this commitment and provide timely investments public health and research programs at the CDC and in the NIH.

I know I am leaving the Committee in good hands as Senator Fischer moves into the position of Ranking Member at the beginning of the next Congress.

We need to move forward with the clarifications that are so obviously needed.

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.