Roy Blunt: “We also really need to have a clear strategy to provide vaccines to developing nations.”

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…

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.

...Indian Tribes are political, sovereign entities to which the Federal Government owes a trust responsibility.

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