David Price: “We have had a good discussion here.”

We have lost a million Americans in a year, or 18 months or so. That is an extraordinary thing.

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

Immigration reform would not solve all of our problems at the border, but without reform we are knowingly accepting a status quo that has become increasingly untenable.

Believe me, this is long overdue. This was one of the more visionary aspects of the Obama recovery plan--$8 billion, in that instance, applied to passenger rail development.