Rosa DeLauro

The decision to terminate a pregnancy is a very serious one. It is a very personal one.

What we need to do is to have consistent funding for public health infrastructure.

I think what we found in the pandemic was that our public health infrastructure collapsed. It collapsed.

I want to thank you, and we were very happy to make the increase in the museum services in the last budget.

With regard to Child Care and Development Block Grant, it was $1,800,000,000. Head Start funding, $960,000,000.

I want to just applaud your testimony, but I also want to let you know that there are two sides to this.

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 level.

We tackled our Nation's most urgent health crises, including opioid misuse, mental health, and maternal mortality.

We strengthened lifesaving biomedical research with increased funding for the National Institutes of Health.

We supported middle class and working families with increased funding for childcare, Head Start, preschool grants.

We invested in high-poverty schools, students with disabilities, postsecondary education.

We increased funding for the National Labor Relations Board for the first time since 2010.

We created and we sustained better-paying American jobs by strengthening job training, apprenticeship programs, worker protection.

It is one of the most important--today's hearing is one of the most important things that this subcommittee does.

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.

The cuts would be detrimental to the American people, to our economy, and essential government functions that our constituents rely on.

I think we should be really building on where we have gone in the last couple of years.

I am saddened that the majority has chosen to exclude Labor-H from the process going forward.

Despite this unimaginable anguish and destruction, the resolve of the Ukrainian people is strong.

As the President and Vice President have stated, Russia is committing crimes against humanity.

For the past year, Russia has waged an egregious, unprovoked war against the Ukrainian people, and during this time we have become witness to one of the worst humanitarian crises the world has seen in generations.

This is precisely the right time to be bold and go bigger.

The Biden Administration has proposed to fund the NIH at $51 billion in 2022, which is a good start, but not nearly enough.