Roy Blunt

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

We served together in the House, but I think in the last year we have had a chance for our relationship to grow and I am grateful that that has happened.

I want to say to that, Secretary, there is a reason that we had the veterans set aside in some of these areas.

Thank you, Chair Murray. I appreciate Secretary Becerra being here today to discuss the Administration's fiscal year 2023 budget request.

The concern at NIH about ARPA-H--or the NIH advocates, not necessarily the people working there, but the support groups and advocates of NIH, has always been that it would take money that otherwise would go to NIH.

I am talking of course about the economic impact of inflation, an invisible tax that takes its toll on every American.

It is wrong for the Federal Government to dictate what that workforce should look like, and for bureaucrats in Washington to determine the speed in which we get there, that should be left up to States, and communities, and local economies.

Last year, when you testified before this Subcommittee, I spoke a great deal about how the COVID-19 pandemic put an unprecedented strain on our economy and its workforce.

What are you planning to do with that $2.2 billion?

I would think some of the overall--this big increase you asked for in the overall budget, maybe there are some ways to justify this $2.2 billion to fill some of those gaps.

For a long time one of the oldest and most successful conservation commissions in the country was funded just by hunting and fishing licenses.

Does this budget at this point anticipate replacing the Javelins or the Stinger missiles that we have given or will give to them?

The accelerated approval pathway has been successful in ensuring patient access to new medications, and has been especially effective for patients with cancer.

I rise today to congratulate Mr. David Hauck on his retirement and recognize his 35 years of dedicated service to the Congress and the American people. A native of Minneapolis, MN, Dave began his Capitol Hill career while still a graduate…

I am a supporter of ARPA-H. At last year's NIH hearing I spent the majority of my statement highlighting that ARPA-H is the right idea at the right time because, as we learned so well during COVID-19, NIH can take a larger, more involved…

I agree with you, it is an important hearing, and I want to thank my colleagues for joining us today.

As Senator Blunt has said, we need the FEC to work so that candidates can run in a way that allows the discourse of the campaign to occur.

I think she's certainly going to be confirmed. I think it'll be a high point for the country to see her go on the court and take her unique perspective to the court. But I don't think she's the kind of judge that will really do the kind of…

I was deeply troubled by the allegations of sexual harassment at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Center in Panama.

This is a big challenge for the individual that has a behavioral health problem, but it can be an equally big challenge for people who care about them.

Exactly. I am so glad to be here with you, Senator Stabenow. We have been friends for a long time and have worked together on a number of issues both in the House, to which we came at the same time, and in the Senate, when I got to the…

Well, we are. As to what you were talking about with getting people into the healthcare system instead of the criminal justice system, it is, obviously, one of the goals we should have. Missouri's really got started in January 2017, and in…

People still may have to occasionally wait and come back tomorrow or come back Wednesday or whatever the schedule might be--and I think that is critically important. Now, Senator Stabenow, what you and I are trying to do is to further…

There may be an occasional evaluation where you talk to somebody and realize this is something that you don't have to put at the very front of that day's line; but if you need to be at the front of the line, you get to go to the front of…

I think in almost--in all of the States, once they get this fully running the way they hope it will, that everybody who needs to be seen the first day is seen the first day.