I urge all of our colleagues to join us in voting to pass the CR so we can continue the work of negotiating and passing full-year funding bills without a shutdown, causing needless harm and chaos for folks back home. We know a shutdown…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays have been requested. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called…

Last Congress, I fought very hard to pass my Prevent Pandemics Act to make sure that we would not be caught so unprepared for whatever the next pandemic hits.

I have really been pressing for more NIH funding to help us better understand and treat long COVID.

What do you want to see done at the Federal level to expand access to quality care for long COVID patients?

I believe in general that our Country needs to take women's health more seriously.

I know you all have lived through the challenge of navigating our health care system.

I know you all have lived through the challenge of navigating our health care system.

I believe in general that our Country needs to take women's health more seriously.

What do you want to see done at the Federal level to expand access to quality care for long COVID patients?

Last Congress, I fought very hard to pass my Prevent Pandemics Act to make sure that we would not be caught so unprepared for whatever the next pandemic hits.

I have really been pressing for more NIH funding to help us better understand and treat long COVID.

I believe in general that our Country needs to take women's health more seriously.

lot of patients with COVID, long COVID in my State of Washington have told me that they have really limited access to quality treatment and rehab services.

Last Congress, I fought very hard to pass my Prevent Pandemics Act to make sure that we would not be caught so unprepared for whatever the next pandemic hits.

I have really been pressing for more NIH funding to help us better understand and treat long COVID.

That needs to be disseminated widely. I think there is also a role to play through HHS, and guidance to state Medicaid agencies to really hold contracted managed care plans accountable to identifying and treating long COVID adequately.

I come to the floor today, thrilled to announce major progress on something that I have been working on since my earliest days here in the U.S. Senate: replacing the I-5 bridge between Vancouver, WA, and Portland, OR. Late last week, the…

I rise today to honor and congratulate Mayor Jill Boudreau on her retirement after 12 years of service as mayor of Mount Vernon, WA. During that time, she has been an inspiring and impactful public servant--leading a municipal government…

I rise today to honor and congratulate Ms. Debora Juarez on her retirement following nearly 35 years of public service and 8 years in elected office. Debora retires from the Seattle City Council. where she was the first representative of…

Routine childhood vaccinations prevent millions of cases of illness.

Continuing to provide robust, sustained and predictable funding for the NIH is the only way we will seize the unparalleled scientific opportunities.

The first preventive vaccine and experimental treatments were recently deployed in Africa against the Ebola virus.

Thank you for your strong, continued support of NIH, NIBIB, and all the Institutes and Centers working to advance our biomedical research efforts and to improve the lives of patients worldwide.

Please maintain this commitment and further enhance support for medical research and public health programs as you work with your colleagues on appropriations for Fiscal Year (FY) 2023.