Roy Blunt: “I tend to be optimistic anyway, Mr. Chairman. That is why I think we are going to get things done.”

I think that many of the things that this Committee has done, that you and Senator Klobuchar have done personally, and that Congress has done for the United States Capitol Police has sent a pretty strong message that people do care about…

I have been Chairman twice--let's see, I was Chairman, then Senator Shelby was Chairman, then I was Chairman again.

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

MCPP is thankful for the strong bipartisan support that the subcommittee leaders, Chairwoman Patty Murray and Ranking Member Roy Blunt, have shown in providing the NIH with its seventh consecutive funding increase during this time of…