Political Quotes

“I want to start out first and foremost by thanking my colleague and the chairman of the subcommittee, Frank Wolf, for continuing to be a model chairman for the Appropriations Subcommittee. He is a professional; he's principled, and he has involved us, the minority, in every level of the distributions as we've developed this bill. I would also like to thank my staff and the committee staff on both the majority and minority side for their work on this bill, along with all those who have had input in it. {time} 1420 Now I start out in this process with a number of priorities. First and foremost in the science arena, neuroscience. And I want to thank the chairman--I will speak about it in some detail in a minute--but for his collaboration and this effort around brain research. Manufacturing. We will talk about the support in this bill, the hundreds of millions of dollars to continue to position our country in terms of manufacturing. We now lead the world in manufacturing, and we want to continue that, but we have real competition that we have to contend with. And then also in the area of steering our young people away from antisocial activity, youth mentoring. And the chairman, in the chairman's mark, as passed in the subcommittee and the full committee, and as we bring this bill to the floor, again makes significant improvements in our investment around youth mentoring. So let me start with the Department of Commerce.…”