Rosa DeLauro

I want to have you tell us what do you expect to do with that.

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

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.

The wisdom of that has been borne out, and I hope we can continue that.

We got to be able to fund them, too.

I would hope on a bipartisan basis that we could take a look, which is not the subject of this committee, but advanced manufacturing and what we can do in the long term on manufacturing those ingredients here rather than in China.

I was disappointed to see a $559,000,000 cut to the National Cancer Institute at a time of unprecedented promise in cancer research.

I just get so frustrated with the notion that we never take up what happens at that level.

Let us look at the top of the list here and find out who the beneficiaries, the real beneficiaries are of our current policy.

We provided the biggest tax cut, the richest one-tenth of 1 percent of the people of this country.

I think the one thing that struck me, Professor Edin, when you were speaking is, you know, we all identify ourselves by our jobs.

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

I am proud to have voted against it.

We do have experimental evidence on the efficacy, or lack thereof, in terms of reducing poverty for work requirements.

The evidence that is usually advanced for the efficacy of work requirements is the welfare reform, the 1996 welfare reform.

We are in an environment where there is a very big focus on work requirement as it pertains to the SNAP program

Kentucky's work requirement was forecasted to force at least 95,000 Kentuckians to lose coverage.

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

My bill, the American Family Act, would give the same full child tax credit to families earning the minimum wage, military families, rural families, families with young kids, all those left behind by the tax bill.

The closer we get to eradicating child poverty, the closer we come as a nation to achieving the prosperity and equity promised to every American.

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

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

I believe that as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.

It is about the consequences. It is about what the effect of those cuts are on our children.

We need to be absolutely clear, and the Department--and you are the Department--should be straight with the Nation's parents and educators.