Congress has a duty to ensure that the United States can pay its bills on time, and the full faith and credit of the United States must not be used as a bargaining chip.
What we did in the 2022 appropriations bill was an overall increase in terms of NCI for $408,000,000.
I am worried about House Republicans' reported proposal to cap the domestic spending for the 2024 budget at the 2022 lev...
We supported middle class and working families with increased funding for childcare, Head Start, preschool grants.
We strengthened lifesaving biomedical research with increased funding for the National Institutes of Health.
We increased funding for the National Labor Relations Board for the first time since 2010.
It is one of the most important--today's hearing is one of the most important things that this subcommittee does.
I think we should be really building on where we have gone in the last couple of years.
We created and we sustained better-paying American jobs by strengthening job training, apprenticeship programs, worker p...
We can't afford to lose that time because you never get it back.
Those early years is when kids are--they are absorbing. They are like little sponges.