Political Quotes

“Let me thank Chairwoman Lowey for yielding, but also for her tremendous and tireless work, day and night, on behalf of the American people, and also our ranking member, Kay Granger, for her leadership. I rise in strong support of this domestic and foreign assistance appropriations bill. First, as a member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee and also the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, I am really pleased to see such a comprehensive bill that strongly invests in our rural and our urban communities. For example, there is $266 million for the new Ending HIV initiative. This is new funding. We have an increase of $42 million to historically Black colleges and universities and a $19 million increase to Hispanic- serving institutions. These institutions help improve the higher education of our students of color; also, an increase in the Healthy Food Financing Initiative and the College Hunger Initiative, which this bill addresses. It also includes $65 million for the Education Innovation Research grants for computer science for young girls and students of color and $20 million for Special Olympics education programs, which the President's budget initially proposed to eliminate. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentlewoman has expired.”