Rosa DeLauro

We cannot allow systematic Government-sanctioned child abuse on our watch.

Congress has a legal and a moral responsibility to conduct oversight of the UAC program and to ensure that children are being taken care of.

We are--using children as bait for immigration enforcement. It is alarming and cruel. And under no circumstances is it justified.

We need clarity on Carrizo Springs.

We are not going to be setting up an indefinite detention empire.

Doesn't it make more sense to have something that is uniform and that it is directed centrally?

I think it is fair to say that the shared goal of my Democratic colleagues on health care is looking at the way in which we achieve universal health coverage in the U.S.

I encourage you to support the creation of a national infrastructure development bank to help supplement gaps in investment.

Every American has the right to live a healthy life, and that requires our government to ensure every person has access to clean water.

We need to enforce the Gainful Employment rule, we need to enforce the Borrower's Defense rule.

It is this administration and it is the current Secretary of Education who refuses to acknowledge that we have to do something.

We can't sit idly by and allow these individuals attending for-profits to be targeted, to be taken advantage of on the government's dime.

A strong accountability for our colleges and universities is vital to ensuring quality higher education for our Nation's students.

Our members are hearing from constituents who were impacted by these bad actors and Democrats are here to fight for them, not protect certain sectors to achieve bipartisanship.

This Department of Education has failed to implement Obama era rules established to protect students from low performing institutions.

The data show us that while, yes, for-profit colleges enroll just 9 percent of students, these companies account for 34 percent of student loan defaults.

You have weakened protections for construction and shipyard workers from beryllium exposure.

You have shuttered the Department of Labor.

You have shortchanged 3 million Americans and workers from getting their overtime.

You have blocked electronic reporting, preventing the public from knowing detailed workplace injury information.

Overall, since the beginning of the Administration, enforcement activities in the workforce have been on a steady decline.

You have allowed child labor in health professions, putting teenagers at risk of injury.

You have limited corporate liability when franchisees, contractors, subcontractors, staffing agencies and the like commit wage theft, hurting working people.

My words may seem harsh, Mr. Secretary, but really they are a response to 17 pages of testimony, which I read--I read very carefully--that, in my view, were divorced from reality and really read like propaganda.

I have to acknowledge, for a moment, that you do come before the committee under a cloud of controversy regarding the Epstein case and questions around the adequacy of your position as a Cabinet official.