Roy Blunt: “This is an accident waiting to happen.”

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 want to join my colleagues in my appreciation for the expansion of NATO--as others have said, the greatest alliance, maybe in history, certainly in the last 200 years, an alliance that has served great benefits and now is growing. NATO…

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

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