Martin Heinrich: “I can guarantee you the only outcome of that will be that we have more debt and higher deficits because of that kind of…”

Our whole premise as we approached this permitting bill was: How do we create a faster process, not lower the bar on standards.

In the short term, what I'd really like to see is a hand-in-glove approach between Russia and the World Health Organization. That would tell us a lot.

We’re going to get to ‘yes’ faster. We’re also going to get to ‘no’ faster when a project is harmful.

I would be very concerned if this were an engineered pathogen. I don't have any unique information saying that is the case. But if it were the case, that would be cause for alarm.