Richard Burr

There may be greater subsidies to a lot of parents, but the parents that don't qualify for a subsidy are going to be paying about $26,000 per child per year for their childcare.

We're all part of the same thing called NATO, and under that agreement, when one of NATO's member's geography is challenged, the rest respond.

Democracy does not come without a cost. It has to be protected.

Leaders like Putin don't want their people to have the freedoms that we cherish and that we strive to protect.

Democracies around the world respond with everything needed to preserve Ukraine's independence and democracies that are threatened.

The U.S. is in the middle of flu season, which has the potential to add additional burden to already-stressed health care systems due to the ongoing pandemic.

The development of the first successful mRNA vaccines is a clear success story from the COVID-19 pandemic.

But don't think that we are just going to sit here and print money without a full accountability of where it has gone.

I also express my disapproval very quickly and that is what I am doing today.

I wrote the law. If--in the case of CDC, they were the delay to begin with, but to acquire testing, that falls in your lane.

Well, get to the others. I mean this there is all--a sense of urgency here. I just think that might have been thought of before we did this.

I hope you will think about that. This is alarming to me.

I get what you are doing. My question is this, what does this say to the innovative company that is out there that doesn't have the manufacturing capacity, and without us marrying them to a large manufacturing capacity, it is basically…

My suggestion in the future is that when you guys huddle inside the COVID team, try to get the Administration to refrain from making these proclamations until we have got the product, until we know who we are negotiating with.

The current Administration's Chief of Staff got it right in 2020 March, and he said testing is broken, testing is broken, testing is broken.

Well, will you confirm your understanding? This is a very, very important piece, when you have got companies that don't manufacture tests.

The Federal Government could use several mechanisms, including competitions with prize awards and grants.

I know you said a while ago that you are excited about what RADx accomplished, and I think we all are.

Hopefully, you will take this challenge to rebuild the trust, not just with me, not just with my colleagues, but with the American people we all serve.

So is that ASPR or is that DOD? Because of all the notifications of contracts signed, I have seen them from DOD.

You ask the American people to trust you. Quite frankly, you have lost their trust.

This Administration has time and again squandered its opportunities and made worse in the decisions you have made on testing and treatment.

Of the 50 million tests that the ASPR has contracted for, how many of those tests detect Omicron?

Why should we have any confidence in these contracts if in fact we are dealing with companies that don't manufacture anything?

I think the Chair and I share this, we found it very confusing, and I think the American people found it confusing.