Mike Rounds: “The House will send us something, and then hopefully we’ll be able to modify it so that we can get Democrat votes on it.”

The question to you, sir, is this. You've offered a supplemental request, and I recognize that it's part of a $1.5 trillion overall. But is this enough money to get the job done, or is this going to just get us far enough until we've got…

I think there's a number of areas within the Department of Education that we've been working on, through legislation, trying to divvy back out again to the departments that they were in before the Department was ever created.

“It’s important that the United States continues to stay ahead of China when it comes to development and manufacturing of new technologies,” said Rounds.

Protecting America's food supply, energy supply and national defense are not separate priorities: they reinforce one another.