"I want to thank Chair Baldwin for working together, bipartisan, and the success of our process depends on finding common ground."
"if you want to know why that divide is becoming bigger and bigger, rural areas have been left behind, the money has not gone appropriately for the challenges they have. And that is so important."
"the discontinuation of the WVPRC gives me great concern that the unique issues facing WV and Appalachia will be greatly diminished going forward."
"Sir, I thank you for your service. I just want to say again on Jessie's Law that has been a long time in coming, okay, and the family they are just hanging on, needles and pins, just waiting for it to..."
"I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it."
"I was pleased to see the Department's finalized the rule implementing the Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act we worked on for so long."
"However, unfortunately, the budget also continues proposals for new partisan mandatory programs that would spend too much money that we--in this day and age, we just do not have."
"I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs."
"The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H."
"A cut to charter school spending does not go over well in a bipartisan environment."
"This will be a challenging funding year as Chair Baldwin aligned that out."