Patty Murray

Thank you all very much for your excellent testimony.

We need a multifaceted approach to build a health care workforce that is more diverse, better distributed, and trained.

We need a strong pipeline to recruit, retain, and train more health care professionals, particularly in rural and underserved areas.

A robust, diverse, collaborative workforce is critical to the health of our families and our communities.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) continues to prioritize research to address the public health threat of antimicrobial resistance.

One of the greatest challenges facing science today is how to manage and effectively use this massive amount of data

Thank you very much.

President Trump's request would undermine these efforts slowing their progress.

Those funds will be used to accelerate efforts to discover cures to Alzheimer's, cancer, and other diseases, tackle the opioid addiction crisis, and develop a universal flu vaccine, and new antibiotics and more.

President Trump's budget for fiscal year 2019 once again seeks deep cuts across the spectrum of health activities, including a reduction to the National Institutes of Health that would cut its funding down to roughly $100 million below the…

I must register my deep disappointment with the continual delays on the comprehensive oil spill response plan rulemaking.

Safety starts with training, Mr. Gardner, it clearly was not adequate.

Thank you very much, Chairman Collins. I really appreciate you holding this hearing today, and Ranking Member Reed.

I just want to remind you that the Seattle area has a large joint military presence.

I had one spouse tell me that she sent out a number of resumes, didn't hear anything back, so she sent to the same people and didn't put on a military spouse affiliation on her resume, and heard back. That's just wrong.

I'm concerned about spouse employment. The opportunities for military spouses are often rare.

I think we really need to keep track of that so we don't end up, down the road, with a bunch of people that have--don't have papers worth anything.

I want to emphasize, I'm really supportive of the effort on this, but I have some real concerns about making sure we have strong, quality guardrails in place.

Instead of working with stakeholders to provide more clarity to that guidance, it was pulled back and the Administration punted it again.

I believe that needs to be done in a way that strengthens this Program that helps so many patients.

Their delay, the Trump delay in continuing to implement that is having an impact.

340B is critical for safety net providers that care for patients and families with the greatest needs and fewest resources.

It is essential that we improve systems of maternity care, including both clinical and public health systems, to eliminate preventable maternal mortality.

Okay. Let me say, would you please look at that as a priority?

Well, as Secretary, would you be willing to ask for that in the next budget?