Patty Murray actually said...

We cannot seed ground and let countries like China get ahead of us and capitalize on the defining discoveries of the future.

we have to work in a timely, bipartisan way, and live up to our responsibility here to provide the funding our Nations needs.

Our adversaries are doing everything they can to get ahead.

I want to see us grow even bolder to make sure we are making the necessary investments to give these critical projects their due.