I am optimistic that we should be able to use that framework to move forward with legislation that cannot only pass this...
It simply adds insult to injury to pretend that deep cuts to food and nutrition programs... will somehow, quote, 'streng...
I think now it is agreed by every member of this Committee that the TSCA law today doesn't work. It is broken. It is not...
I could cite many examples of concerns that we have, and we could talk about BPA in plastics and baby bottles that has b...
We have a responsibility to pass a framework to protect the public from these toxins.
the number I was giving you was for able-bodied adults. Did not include the elderly and kids.
Let's make sure we get it right this time, because it may be 37 years before we get back to it again.
I have not heard any testimony today that actually goes out to propose specific changes.
That budget, the Republican budget, cuts $810 billion from the base funding from Medicaid, $810 billion.
It is a budget that showers large new tax breaks on the wealthiest in this country while hurting the middle class.
the proposal that our Republican colleagues in the House have made is that we would, relative to today's sequester, we w...
We need to deal with asbestos, for goodness sake. We need to ban asbestos.
the Republican budget turns it into a block ramp, and cuts it to a level where it is one-third below the Congressional B...
if you look at the Republican budget, it dramatically cuts, not reforms, it dramatically cuts a lot of those important s...
But in Parliamentary systems where they can engage all these programs at once, they look at these problems and they say,...
Why are Republicans making such deep cuts to programs that help so many? Because their lopsided approach to the budget p...
I think your testimony has been extremely helpful to our debate.
I appreciate that EPA is continuing its investigations of hydraulic fracturing. I think that the EPA's investigations ar...