Rosa DeLauro

We must dramatically increase the NIH's budget, so that a lack of funding is not the reason why patients go untreated and diseases remain a threat to public health.

I think the Defense Production Act can have, you know, a serious effect on the production of this product.

It is shocking -- it is shocking maybe not surprising but shocking that anyone could vote against this legislation and the number of people, the Republicans who voted in the House last night against the bill that I introduced as equally as…

Why didn’t they take action? The information was there. They had -- they were had their own suspicions, as been verified this evening in this account from Bloomberg, that they had their suspicions in September.

What is clear here is that we are looking at, we have people are talking about the supply issue. This is supply and it’s about safety. And they don’t have -- they’re not exclusive. We don’t have to select one or the other.

We have to find out what happened and those who are engaged and involved in this need to be held accountable.

I would like to work with you all on this. Because this is just one example.

I am not going to talk about FDA dragging its feet, you know, and not doing something about this earlier on, but we have a very fundamental underlying problem of what is going on in some very critical issues that face people's lives and…

We have really lifted over 3 million youngsters out of poverty.

I have never seen a federal program that has resulted in so much success in such a short period of time.

The monthly basis has been a godsend to people. No one pays their bills on a yearly basis.

We are quite focused on quality of life in this subcommittee, particularly for service members' families.

I think this is a very important issue for us to save money that we can then put into a lot of these other programs.

Congress has a lot of work to do to address teacher shortages, and I intend to lead these efforts.

It is appalling to think that in 2022, we have people in this country that are being taken advantage of.

We also have to continue to support 35 percent of our workers that are tipped workers, and we have to make sure that our tipped workers as well aren't taken advantage of.

Anyone in this country, in the United States of America, that goes to work any day, every day, should be paid for every single minute that they work.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common working men.

My mom would say to me, 'Rosa, these are supposed to be the golden years, but they are the lead years.'

So we have so many complex problems associated with the changing demographic. The sooner we deal with it and begin seriously thinking about this, the better.

Thank you to Congresswoman Frankel for her initiation of this effort, but it has really been very, very powerful testimony.

Little is more essential to supporting the needs of our seniors than ensuring that they don't go hungry.

I am proud that these values are already reflected in the funding that this committee makes to support our seniors.

This month and the hearing today should serve to recommit the committee to the health and prosperity of our seniors.

I want to specifically recognize our colleague Congresswoman Lois Frankel for her interest in this critical topic.