Frank Pallone

May I inquire how much time remains. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey has 17 minutes remaining.

I thank Chairman Smith and his team for including several important amendments to this year's National Defense Authorization Act, and that includes my amendment that requires a report from the Department of Defense addressing instances…

It's alarming that, 20 months into the pandemic, COVID-19 cases among children are at an all-time high as the Delta variant continues to surge in communities across the country.

It is on all of us to do everything that we can to keep them safe.

State and local actions that ignore or even contradict the science put our children at risk.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been one of our Nation's most challenging periods.

This budget resolution allows us to implement President Biden's Build Back Better agenda to revitalize our economy by creating millions of good-paying jobs, and it allows us to aggressively combat the climate crisis. The goal of the Energy…

I have a motion at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Pallone of New Jersey moves to reconsider the vote on passage of H.R. 4502. Motion to Table Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I…

The BRAIN Initiative is providing a revolutionary foundation for future research and clinical development.

It is clear that a lot more must be done to support the discovery and development of safe and effective treatments and cures.

I thank Chairwoman Barbara Lee and her team for putting together such a robust State-Foreign Operations bill. I think this was a major achievement. I come here as the co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Armenian Issues, and I am…

Congress and this committee in recent years have supported substantial investments in neurodegenerative disease research.

Thank you, Chairwoman Eshoo, and let me really thank everybody for testifying today.

Thank you, Chairwoman Eshoo.

This was really incredibly informative.

In 2016, we passed the 21st Century Cures Act, which authorized over $1.5 billion to support the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative.

Our understanding of the human brain has rapidly increased in recent years, thanks to advancements in science and research.

I wanted to know two questions.

One of the strategies that has been discussed in witness testimony today is bolstering expanded access, sometimes called compassionate use.

It is time to bring the FTC into the modern era, to give it the tools and resources to keep up with changes in the market.

I urge the Senate to take up the bill without delay.

my basic philosophy is that Congress, not the FTC, is the place to answer them.

My Republican Committee colleagues routinely emphasize the need for comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. I agree, and that is why the Committee remains hard at work on privacy.

I believe that, across the board, deregulation and a strong Federal privacy regime cannot coexist.

With House passage of the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act, we must take the next step.