David Price: “I am asking about DHS funding, Homeland Security funding, which, after all, is the department we are appropriating for.”

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

I implore you to see what is at stake here as Fort Bragg needs this investment to be able to respond to the next global crisis.

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.

Chairwoman Wasserman Schultz, you alluded to this need in your testimony during last week's Quality of Life Hearing, and I appreciate your advocacy.