"These breakthroughs and the need for additional research into hundreds of other diseases is why this committee fought to increase funding for the NIH by $2,000,000,000 in the fiscal year 2016 omnibus spending bill."
"I appreciate your leadership and our Ranking Member and the whole Committee in getting the extra $2,000,000,000."
"I called on this committee to once again commit to doubling funding for the NIH."
"I hope I am optimistic, and the issue is of critical importance, as you know."
"we also have to deal with loan repayment issues."
"If they could get another cycle continuing the three, four, five, six jobs, they could get out there and work with a degree."
"I hope that this committee can move beyond politics, look at the science, and provide an increase for the EPA, so it can adequately protect our public health."
"I want to express our heartfelt prayers for all the families who lost loved ones in another evil act of terrorism and express our determination to bring the perpetrators to justice."
"Frankly, protecting children from lead should not be a partisan issue."
"I am outraged, as are many of my colleagues, at the neglect and criminal incompetence that resulted in the Flint water crisis."
"I offered an amendment to strike the rider that would have prohibited the EPA from implementing the Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule."