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

this is not going to happen. It is not going to happen.

Not only did they discriminate against African Americans, they discriminated against Hispanic farmers, and they discriminated against women farmers.

I support your efforts to align the Title 10 Family Planning Program with current law and ensure a separation between family planning services and abortion.

That achievement gap has not closed one little bit.

What I am going to try to do is to ask three or four questions and get quick answers to them.

I appreciate the administration's request for increased funding to reduce maternal mortality as well as additional funding to address tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease.

what has been provided to date is unacceptable. It lacks the fundamental components of a supplemental request

the cuts that you have proposed is doublespeak.

God is in His Heaven. All is right with the world.

President Trump's disastrous budget is filled with program cuts opposed by the public and bipartisan majorities in both chambers.

We need the expanding public policies that boost education attainment, not restricting or reducing them.

And so we will not allow you to go after millions of Americans; instead, we will continue to invest in health workforce programs, medical research, and the public health, because it is what American people need and what the American people…

I believe charter schools ought to be held to the same rigor, and where they fail, we need to know about it.

I just would mention that in Arkansas, 18,000 individuals were kicked off the State's Medicaid program because of work requirement.

This is an assault on women's health and the rights of women and their doctors.

But if you are cutting the budget, you are cutting the budget.

Our country needs to be ready to respond to any event to protect the health of the Nation.

I am very, very proud that the Congress has increased the NIH funding by $11,600,000,000, 39 percent over the past 5 years.

I want to take time to acknowledge the continued struggles of children in Puerto Rico.

There are a vast number of Americans who believe the taxpayer dollars should not be used to promote or fund abortions.

I do support your efforts to streamline and create a more user-focused system for student borrowers.

I don't believe we use the Rapid Response Fund.

I usually use the phrase, you know, we are in another one of those years where we are robbing Peter to pay Paul.

I am proud to have voted against it.