Thank you very much, Madam Chairman, for the opportunity to discuss this proposed budget and delve into some of the major items facing the Agency and the Country...

I hope that as we go through the debate we can have a full, honest debate.

The Administration asked us earlier this year to support borrowing $800 billion on our children's credit card to 'stimulate' the economy.

An incomplete and inaccurate Census denies Latinos a right granted by the Constitution of the United States.

Data collected in the U.S. Census affects how billions of dollars in Federal and State funding is given to communities that are suffering.

It will diminish the potential of this community and it will have a great impact on future generations of Latinos in this country.

I urge you to request the U.S. Census Bureau develop a plan that will reach the undocumented and the documented the same way.

It has been made very clear by the Obama administration that they have no intention of pursuing the used nuclear fuel repository at Yucca.

It has been nine months since former presidential candidate John Edwards admitted he had an affair with a woman he hired to make campaign videos. Now federal investigators are looking into payments for those videos to see if Edwards…

At a time when you own its future an entire culture hangs in the balance, the most sought after actor in our fellow New Orleanian hasn't simply helped people. He's given their lives back. Pitt has brought life and hope for our most unique…

At a time when you own its future an entire culture hangs in the balance, the most sought after actor in our fellow New Orleanian hasn't simply helped people. He's given their lives back. Pitt has brought life and hope for our most unique…

At a time when you own its future an entire culture hangs in the balance, the most sought after actor in our fellow New Orleanian hasn't simply helped people. He's given their lives back. Pitt has brought life and hope for our most unique…

your partnership here is extremely powerful. And it is immensely encouraging to me and to my constituents

I wonder if there are some things that Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, and the public health officials of the country could recommend...

We need to refocus on more internal manufacturing capacity and, again, new technology because we are still using vaccination technology of a number of decades ago...

I don't think any of us want to have $16,000 taken off our salary.

I don't think you are going to like it.

I have heard from a number of small business owners, just like you, are finding health insurance to be increasingly unaffordable.