Rosa DeLauro

It would be absurd to champion this budget request for its so-called fiscal responsibility.

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

I do have some concerns that consolidating some programs, such as the Charter School Program, could have a negative consequence for the very students we hope to benefit.

I am also concerned about the proposal to consolidate several Minority Serving Institutions' funding into a single stream.

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

I am particularly concerned about the proposal to move the successful TRIO program from a competitive grant model to the formula grant to our States.

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

This is not going to happen. It is not going to happen.

We need to get to a point where that is no longer the case and that ORR and DHS have only their concern about the welfare of these children.

What kind of firewall exists between ORR's information about potential sponsors and ICE given that information sharing for enforcement actions is prohibited?

Can you tell me also, is ORR sharing information with DHS on any adult who does not fall into the categories included in the DHS rider?

You are prohibited by law from detaining sponsors based on information that HHS collects on potential sponsors during the vetting process.

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

Your push to privatize public education is based, in my view, on a false premise that is not supported by data.

The Trump administration evaluated the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and found that vouchers had a statistically significant negative impact on the mathematics achievement of impacted students.

The solution is not less resources, nor is it more privatization.

You stated that infectious disease, global health, and preparedness were prioritized in the CDC budget request following essential programs we--were proposed for cuts.

We are cutting $920 billion over 10 years to Medicaid, $756 billion over 10 years for Medicare.

If the proposal would reduce funding for a program's benefit or services or reduce the number of people who qualify for benefits relative to levels that would occur under current law, it is a cut.

We need to find out what is going on in the minds of veterans and others in order to be able to plumb why they are taking their lives.

I think the people that work with you have as well, and I am very confident you will continue to do that.

The women and the girls in this country, we need to be in charge of our own bodies in order to have full, productive lives, not Donald Trump being in charge of our bodies.

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

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

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