It is clear that OIT has struggled in its mission.

I share the responsibility with Congress to make sure that that happens, but I also have learned a little bit about the--your responsibility as well on your side of the table to make sure that you provide clear priorities for us.

This hearing is incredibly important.

A special thanks to Mr. Glenn Stoltzfus from Pennsylvania 13 in Somerset County for joining us here this morning.

I have learned about my job here is to make sure that we deliver a budget on time

This is a personal issue for me. It gets personal when someone who you love says, 'This is who I am.'

I think we have to look at this in a comprehensive way.

I have and I would venture to guess many of my colleagues if not all have heard stories from distraught constituents about what is very appropriately named surprise billing.

The idea that my sister or anyone else could drive across State lines and either gain or lose protections is both heartbreaking and, I think, profoundly un-American.

Choice would be understandable. Knowledge not so much. What about the hospital? Do you feel they have any responsibility here in this scenario?

I don't understand that in the balance, even if any of those, anecdotally, things were true, on whole, on the measure, in the balance of how we move forward in this country, are we to be held back those phantom anecdotes, or are we to look…

We must name sexual orientation as a protected class.

Economically, it is the right thing to do to make your workforce as diverse as possible.

your testimony shows beyond measure the extraordinary heartbreaking discrimination.

I thank Mr. Cicilline for his extraordinary leadership on this legislation.

it is not only the right thing to do, it is the economically smart thing to do to come up with more creative solutions.

Mr. Speaker, in the 1970s, Congress made a commitment to provide a free and appropriate education to students with disabilities. While we have made tremendous progress, thanks to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, we have…

Donald Trump doesn't do hard. Donald Trump doesn't do solutions-based policy. And Donald Trump certainly does not do humane.