"I fear that the mistrust in our Government public health system has eroded to a dangerous level."
"I want to stress that each dollar invested in the NIH is, in my view, a down payment on our future."
"I certainly pledge to work with my friends across the aisle to rebuild a bipartisan coalition of support for basic science and research."
"This won't be the last one we see. We know that the biosphere will continue to throw things at us."
"We have about 4,100 unfilled teaching positions, paraprofessionals, other staff."
"I strongly believe that ARPA-H would be more successful in its unique mission if it were established as an independent agency within Health and Human Services."
"I think this is an indispensable national priority that I think we just got a serious lesson how important these investments are."
"The last thing members or our military should be concerned about is being able to provide childcare while a spouse is working, or service member is deployed."
"We have got to do something legislatively and play a role in helping to get our Nation in a better place."
"The Trump administration, I think it is fair to say, weaponized that program, expanded it greatly."
"First of all, the case you make for the authorization--the permanent authorization or CDBG-DR, we do need that."