"I am a very strong supporter, as you quoted my remarks, of Head Start."
"I think we want to get the record that shows that, Madam Secretary, that we are going to get the $1,000,000,000 back, and that we are going to fund the money in the 2012 bill."
"I am pleased that, unlike the budget put forward by the majority here in the House, this request invests in continued medical research at the National Institutes of Health."
"I cannot stress the importance of Head Start enough."
"We live or die here by programs that are authorized or not."
"I worry desperately about those children who haven't been read to, who don't know the front of a book from the back of a book."
"It is unquestionably the most effective early childhood development program ever developed."
"the funding is not there for community health centers."
"I challenged all those Governors last weekend to say that is the wrong cut to make."
"I would like to add that the big losers in moving to direct lending are the banks."
"Even Start, as a result of the 2-week C.R., the Continuing Resolution, that we are currently living under, has been in effect killed."