However, for the fiscal year 2013 budget year, the President proposes a $48 million decrease.

A lot of this work was done by the Clinton administration. This was a big priority for President Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.

I want to stress to you how important it is to me, and to the people of Louisiana, that we have a strong exchange in our State.

We have increased domestic adoptions from 14,000 a year to 52,000 a year.

I want to commend you for your tenacity and your focus on helping stand up a major reform, very few reforms of its nature in our Nation's history.

Part of the reasons that their budgets are shrinking is because they are giving tax cuts they cannot afford.

State Governors need to man up and woman up and do their job to provide funding necessary to help kids that are born with defects.

But remember that the best support for a child is a good parent.

Do you think Medicare can be saved with arbitrary reimbursement cuts, or do we need more fundamental reform?

I am appalled by the government control of everything, and I think we need to get the government out of it.

It was once said that a politician worries about the next election, but a statesman worries about the next generation.

This body, this country, and the entire world lost a true gentleman in Donald Payne, and we lost a quintessential statesman.

If we can remember anything with his passing, we can rest assured that Donald Payne did what he was purposed to accomplish in his lifetime.

I think we need more fundamental reform.

No additional spending by this agency is justified in these hard times and under these hard circumstances, in my judgment.

I would like to ask you a question about the Volcker rule and how it applies to insurance companies.

the reason I find that curious is the New York Times just had an article speaking about how Medicaid costs have gone from 21 to 23 or 24 percent, expected to rise further.

that seems to be contrary to objective analyses from those not connected with government.