Today, we will begin to examine how well the Department is prepared to meet its responsibilities for the 21st Century.

Indeed, a strong national laboratory system, well managed and overseen, increases the prospects for strong DOE mission performance across the board.

When it comes to the various missions for DOE none surpass in importance the department's critical responsibility for maintaining the nation's nuclear deterrent and technological superiority on all aspects of nuclear security.

Today we will begin to examine how well the Department is prepared to meet its responsibilities for the 21st century.

A Zika outbreak threatens the continental U.S.

The Federal Government's ambivalence towards biological threats must end.

We were not prepared for Ebola.

I'm glad you're having this hearing now, because the hearing you don't want to have is the one that happens after tens of thousands of people have lost their lives.

The American people deserve and I believe they expect more from their President.

I believe that he is more interested in grandstanding and engaging in anti-gun theatrics than actually doing the work necessary to protect this country.

I think there is just a fundamental disagreement about what is actually on the page here.

As Americans celebrate Christmas, millions of families will have an empty chair at the table for a relative who is lost in our failed mental health system or one of the more than 80,000 mentally ill who died this year. They suffer from a…