03/08/2017
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"Thank you very much. It is now a pleasure for me to introduce the chair of the full Appropriations Committee, Congresswoman Nita Lowey."
"Gun violence is a public health emergency. Anything that kills 40,000 Americans every year is a crisis."
"The CDC, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is the nation's foremost public health agency. And yet, it has been absent from this research agenda for more than 20 years."
"At the signing of the Higher Education Act in 1965 President Lyndon Johnson said the law would, quote, 'swing open a new door for the young people of America.'"