"This budget protects the progress we have made in the last 4 years to expand the opportunity of more affordable health coverage to more Americans."
"As President Obama has said, the budget you consider is about more than numbers. It is about our values and what sort of future we want to give to our children."
"On December 7th, I presented at a meeting held by Rosa DeLauro, Congresswoman from the Greater New Haven area in Wallingford."
"I authored the menu labeling rule, and it became part of the ACA, and it was to include movie theaters, chains--"
"The ACA is the law of the land, and our constituents deserve to access quality insurance options on its exchanges."
"We need to know on this committee what is required to ensure the public health of this country domestically, internationally, and how overwhelmed your agency may be if this committee doesn't do someth..."
"I certainly hope that we can enact these kinds of commonsense savings in this effort."
"They want to know how the rules will impact them and how they will fit into the system."
"I really want to make sure that you are looking at diversified operations, that you have those farmers in mind as you work to improve the proposed rule."
"If we are serious, let us provide the FDA with the budget authority that it needs commensurate with the job that it does."
"There is a danger, in my view, about the integrity of the standards that are imperative to consumers and confidence in our food safety."