Patty Murray

The most immediate thing to do was to have a viable action plan that really provides a roadmap.

I have seen him, at the VA, leave almost every senior position in the department without a permanent official in place.

He has implemented a hiring freeze that prevents VBA from hiring the staff needed to process veterans' claims.

Let me just say, veterans have really benefited from expanded access to affordable health insurance and the expanded Medicaid, in particular, under ACA.

Senator Blunt and I were able to fund a new $90 million national apprenticeship grant in 2016 which is now supporting the Nation's first technology sector apprenticeship in Washington State.

I am deeply worried about the President's budget that is coming out this week and what it will be looking at cutting.

How essential is quality workforce training in developing young learners' skills in STEM?

In fact, just 192 low income students took the AP computer science exam last year in Washington State.

I fear that if we don't we will find it very difficult to find the common ground that has characterized the work of this committee.

I hope that Congress will continue to abide by the parity principle we have followed in bipartisan budget agreements.

Just 33 percent of high schools with high black and Latino student enrollment offer calculus.

For too many students in schools, a high-quality STEM education is not an option.

We need to focus our attention on the investments necessary to provide economic opportunity for all workers, not just those at the top.

While some risk factors may be comparable across ethnic groups, we don't really know yet the risk factors and brain changes in their populations that may differ.

That's exciting. Keep it going.

Because it is designed specifically for that?

I would just say that the prevention fund money that is in the ACA is really critical.

Yes. Yes. Yes. And then that is what--that is actually the point of the professional judgment budget.

Wow. Well, what are the greatest barriers to finding an effective treatment for this, for the disease?

The amyloid treatment that you mentioned, how early can you see that in someone that will develop Alzheimer's later?

It's great to have you out here from the University of Washington.

Thank you, Chairman Blunt, for holding today's hearing.

I look forward to working with this subcommittee and others to ensure that cuts are not made that would undermine our progress on medical research.

This is not only misguided policy, it flies in the face of the Budget Agreement which is meant to ensure parity between defense and non-defense spending.

The NIH accounts for the largest share of our subcommittee's resource and its work is vital to all those efforts.