Because of these brave women and men, our democracy proved its resilience, our institutions withstood the threat, and we overcame the chaos.

On January 6, 2021, our Nation gazed into the abyss and understood more fully than ever before that our democracy is fragile.

While their physical wounds may have healed, there is still so much more they will need to rebuild.

Political violence has absolutely no place in our society, our democracy, or our legislative process.

Sadly, annual funding for the Capitol Police--which this Committee voted to increase by $88.4 million--is being held up because Republicans are refusing to negotiate appropriations bills.

To the extent that they discussed the Smithfield report, the content of that discussion would be considered pre-decisional.

What is ORR's policy with regard to sharing information, sharing significant incidence reports collected by case managers...

Let us help people that have had misfortune and made mistakes get back on the right track in life...

I would hope we would get to direct representation, legal representation of children.

More than half of Americans live in a childcare desert, and that includes the one in five college students who are parents.

This isn't necessarily your budget. This is the OMB's budget that you are tasked to defend.

We need them to come back.

Let us not denigrate a public school system that serves 90 percent of our kids and that is making gains.

This subcommittee will not be pursuing these cuts. We intend to move forward with a continued increase investment in NIH.

The program that we fund there is the National Health Service Corp, which really lets us through tuition reimbursement get people who are nurses, doctors, dentists, through a reimbursement system to serve in rural communities and…

I think the important thing is the policy here, and the proposal--the policy proposal is to put all of those programs together in one block grant that would then allow the most local level, those closest to the students, to target the…

We are an appropriations committee. This is a serious amount of money that we are looking at.

I am very, very concerned about the amount of funding to the Office of Women's Health Research.

I am fierce about TRIO and GEAR UP and some of these other programs.

I am proud of my chairman who has been my partner in this for years, and I am proud of our colleagues on the other side of the Rotunda who have worked with this for years.

Building a system that can accommodate unpredictable arrivals at the southern borders is both necessary and responsible management of Federal resources.

I will get the five areas.

Let me just say--I beg the indulgence of the subcommittee because I would like to address, Congressman Moolenaar, your comments.

But how if you consistently underfund the CDC, you have taken up the heart of chain of command...

Housing should be a fundamental right, like education and having access to clean drinking water.