This is an area where we should be taking our taxpayer dollars and investing in the future of brain health in this country.

I can promise you this--and I spoke to the group that was in my office earlier. This is my commitment: to continue to fight for the funding.

This is a fantastic panel. I just wanted the opportunity, however, to introduce all of you to one of the panelists from the great State of Nevada.

I have worked with as Attorney General looking at issues affecting the health of Native communities, particularly our youth.

This whole concept of food deserts concerns me.

I do think it is an area that needs to be addressed.

To me, that is part of the tragedy of this horrific disease, that I feel that we need to be spending the money for the research for the cure.

We definitely need to get that board functioning.

I think we absolutely need to address this issue of skills gap and do whatever we can to prepare the workforce for the future.

investing in Interstate 11 is not fixing it first, it is investing in new projects that we need in infrastructure across the country.

Does that affect your business if we don't?

I would appreciate more of a direct interaction at the state level and not through different task forces or multi-levels.