If Congress does not replenish the Choice Fund, will wait times lengthen like they were before Phoenix?
And will the TPAs have to let staff across the country go if it is not replenished?
I get a little frustrated sometimes because I know we have done that, and have had other requests that come on from educators.
That is a person.
I think we hear all the bad. We don't hear a lot of times the good.
I am very concerned because one of the purposes for the Choice Program, when Congress enacted that, was because veterans were not receiving ...
Just very briefly, just to put that in context. Like I said a moment ago, I was here for the BCA. We had a number in the discretionary part ...
We must begin with concrete, factual data to adequately address gaps in effective competition.
This budget makes it even worse, deep budget cuts.
You can't say, 'Okay, we'll just turn off for a few years those studies and trials...'
I am worried about the budget. You know, this affects all of us.
It slashes NIH resources by $7.2 billion, 21 percent, the lowest NIH budget since 2002.
I will fight for every dollar to get it back that I can.
I am deeply concerned that this budget cuts public safety and justice programs at the Bureau of Indian Affairs by more than $36 million from...
We are not looking for a one size fits all, but we want to have the remedies we had in the Violence Against Women Act that we all voted for ...
Now, rates of domestic violence against Native women in Indian Country are among the highest in the United States.
I think this budget actually--proposal--and I realize we are cutting all over the place, but this fails in all these areas. I think it is go...
I'm going to urge the Secretary not to ignore the technological advances we made or the fact that they're going to cost money to continue th...
