the National Mall is something that people come from every single state, almost every community, to see and do not want it to be run down.

I think, thanks to your work and the work of Senator Warner, Senators Portman and King, the Chairman, others, I think we have a very good product.

My time is up, Mr. Chairman, but I will mention my suggestion of how helpful it would be to have a large number of Democratic and Republican co-sponsors for the bill.

It would genuinely help our efforts to move this through swiftly if the 3,000 organizations would let members of the Senate know that they hope they will co-sponsor this legislation.

This is becoming more and more common.

It should have been done some time ago. This is a very important area for the students and faculty members and administrators all over the country.

We wanted the public to know what our 50 million students in 100,000 public schools--how they were doing and how the schools are doing.

It seems to me that applying for Federal aid for college should be as simple as buying a plane ticket on your phone or buying a book with one click.

It would be helpful for me to know, if I were in that business, exactly what is the definition of sexual harassment?

I just want to make sure that those 12 items are things that you can do while we are still debating when to move ahead with our Higher Education Act.

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will please come to order.

And we funded $500 million in research this past year--Senator Blunt and Murray did--and $500 million more proposed by the budget for this coming year.

We need to lead the world in that. Congress wants to do it, both Republicans and Democrats.

I think the only people not on board with the President's America First comments are the Office of Management and Budget.

We are deep into that as well.

I appreciate their leadership and the increase in funding for the National Institutes of Health.

We have developed quite a consensus on science and research.

I stand by an investment in NIH because it has provided millions of Americans and their families with hope.

This initiative will change our health system from one-size-fits-all to personalized medicine.

This is not the time to back away from our support.

It is good to see a piece of legislation that had such broad bipartisan support.

Senator Murray and I have included in the opioids bill the transactional authority that you asked for to give you even more flexibility in funding.

This is not the time to abandon our commitment to medical research.

I encourage you to work with both advocates and manufacturers to achieve a result.

It seemed to me that it was sweeping, comprehensive, sophisticated, and appears to me to put patients and taxpayers first.