Roy Blunt

I look forward to working with you in this role.

I think that decision that you don't have to wear a mask once you have been fully vaccinated, will encourage people to get vaccinated.

What can we do to ensure that that money gets spent, and there is more transparency about how and where it is being spent?

This is your first hearing as the Labor/HHS Chair and I look forward to working with you in this role.

I am glad to hear that.

ARPA-H should not do what the other institutes do, but it should do what the other institutes cannot do in a crosscutting way that goes throughout the institutes.

Don't make it needlessly difficult by continuing to change the guidelines that you've giving hospitals on how they can spend the money.

I know you don't want, and I don't want any of those children to go to a place where they're less safe, where they're going to be exploited or taken advantage of, and I would hope you're doing everything you can dealing with those big…

I want to remind the Committee that only a few short months ago, President Biden felt it was so imperative to pass a COVID-19 supplemental bill that the Administration pushed through a $1.9 trillion partisan bill, with no input from…

Vaccines are a necessary, an absolutely necessary part of us creating an environment where this virus can't continue to replicate itself and change in new ways, and the variants are going to be the future enemy.

I would like to note my continued concerns about the Air Force's proposed reductions of C-130 Total Aircraft Inventory.

I'm pleased that we have made great progress with the support of this committee to ensure our aircraft at the 442nd Fighter Wing and across the A-10 enterprise are modernized.

I, along with others of the Missouri Congressional Delegation, wrote to you last month to express our support for your decision to re-station the 2nd Battalion, 152nd Infantry Regiment.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) and the Senator from South Dakota (Mr. Thune). Further, if present and voting, the Senator from Wyoming (Ms. Lummis) would have voted ``nay.'' The result…

We have seen 60 percent less time spent in jails by people who really needed health services.

These clinics are required to provide comprehensive services, including 24/7, 365 mobile crisis team services.

And today the National Council for Mental Wellbeing... released a new CCBHC impact report with similarly stunning results.

We need to finally treat health care above the neck the same way we treat health care below the neck.

We would also like to express our gratitude to Senator Stabenow, Senator Blunt, the National Council, and Nevada's Governor Sisolak, who have supported the CCBHC model and expanded the demonstration to 2022.

I want to talk also about infrastructure and associate myself with the interest that the country has in infrastructure. In fact, one of the things that the government has done the longest has been roads and bridges and canals. I think…

It's critically important to us that we get this right.

I'm a little unclear in the President's proposal how the current Highway Trust Fund fits in.

The President's plan calls for revitalizing manufacturing, securing US supply chains, and investing in R&D, including in biotechnology.

Thank you, Chairman, and again welcome to all of you today. Thanks for being willing to serve in these jobs that have so much impact on the lives of every American every day.

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from Montana (Mr. Daines), the Senator from Oklahoma (Mr…