Rosa DeLauro

The OIG's swine slaughter audit would be available in April. I just want to remind you that the plants may be committing to this new system by March 20.

You are independent. That is what makes the IG so critically important to all of us up here.

Are you going to conduct an investigation?

But your delay in dealing with this means that this program is going to continue to move in the direction that it has been moving.

I make an assumption that the Secretary condones the use of taxpayer dollars in order to subsidize a corrupt foreign-owned corporation engaged in illegal activity.

I am concerned about the continued and substantial payments to U.S. subsidiaries of the corrupt Brazilian-owned and controlled meat packer JBS.

I want to get my state's share of the money that we send through taxpayer resources.

There will be no cuts to Medicaid

The cost savings around healthcare and the access to paid leave are integrally related.

How do we make sure that we're not piling on medical debt, lack of access to paid leave, student debt, high housing prices, and wages that aren't growing.

I know, when I entered Congress, I represent the 2nd congressional District of Illinois, and I had the highest rate of foreclosures in my area because of healthcare issues.

You know, as Members of Congress, I believe it is our duty to level the playing field for middle class families and for working people, especially now.

We are the ones who make these decisions.

So, the market is responding, but that's because we had the courage enough to pass a law that most people said would drive business out of California, when California is now the economic engine, and always has been, of the country.

We must not only celebrate them; we must elevate them.

We need to alleviate the economic insecurity of middle-class families, of working people.

I introduced the FAMILY Act with my partner in the Senate, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

The United States needs a national paid leave policy to provide paid time off for working people.

I believe it is our duty to level the playing field for middle class families and for working people, especially now.

My current bill would provide Federal employees... with 12 weeks of paid leave...

Champions like former Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder... started this important work force effort...

There are some who disagree. They oppose paid maternity and paternity leave...

Providing this benefit is a significant and important investment in our future.

We need a policy that supports hardworking young women who are having their children, that supports the father in crisis...

I think the infant mortality problem in the United States is very real.