David Price: “I don't know how that lesson is lost--it appears to me, honestly, Mr. Secretary, that it has been lost on the…”

The Trump administration, I think it is fair to say, weaponized that program, expanded it greatly.

I think this is an indispensable national priority that I think we just got a serious lesson how important these investments are.

I urge my colleagues to sit up and take notice of this. This is quite an amendment--quite a radical amendment. It indiscriminately would cut a total of 36 percent from programs in Transportation and Housing without any regard for the…

I want to stress that each dollar invested in the NIH is, in my view, a down payment on our future.