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.

House Democrats will move quickly to enact a robust package that will fully address this threat without jeopardizing other necessary programs.

You and the President are to be commended for that.

One of this Nation's most urgent charges is to address the achievement gap between English learners and their Native English-speaking peers.

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

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

I was dismayed--actually shocked--with the elimination of the Federal funding we included in the fiscal year 2020 spending bill for gun violence prevention research.

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 am going to wrestle with this student loan problem because I see it as real issue...

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

We will do a hearing or a briefing with Rosemary Gibson, China Rx, so that we can talk about that.

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

Your budget proposal has eliminated this crucial support for students in high-poverty schools.

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

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

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

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 believe that we are not doing enough to prepare the public for what may be localized, household, or individual quarantines to address spread of COVID-19.

This virus is a serious public health threat, but this does not mean that we should have a public health panic.

3 days is not going to cut it.

We need to implement a national sick leave program.

I am disappointed that Congress has not done more as a governing body for workers.

No mother should be forced to sacrifice a paycheck to care for an ill child.

I worked with infectious disease experts, policy makers, and worked to raise awareness with my fellow Members of Congress.

We can beat the coronavirus, but the administration needs to set politics aside and put scientists in the driver's seat.