the Department proposed to revise and repeal protections for 16- and 17-year-old workers.

Children have been put in harm's way because of the policies by the Agency.

I think it is highly coincidental.

You can't talk about voting for life and pick and choose those issues that you believe are going to promote life.

You are extending the program without any knowledge of its effectiveness.

how can you say the budget addresses the opioid epidemic when it fails to support preventive health measures that will counteract consequences of using opioids?

your proposed rule which would strip protections away from more than 3 million workers is almost exactly what the Chamber of Commerce told you to do in their comments submitted last year.

All's right with the world is not what is happening at the Department of Labor today.

I hope you will take a very, very hard look at the renegotiated NAFTA treaty.

the short-term plans, also known as junk plans, that the President Fiscal Year 2020 budget touts does not include maternal care as a benefit.

It is the obligation of this subcommittee to ensure that the middle class, working families, and low-income families are not harmed by reckless cuts.

It is a pat on the back with no deterrence impacts on the employer or others who are violating the law.

I want to note my strong opposition to the Administration's proposed changes to Title 10.

I wonder if you have seen these programs and see how critical they are to many of our communities.

Twenty is not a sample size.

The proposed elimination of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program is quite perplexing.

shame on you. This is your watch. You are Secretary of the Department of Education.

By the way, the measles is at its second-highest level since 2000, so lest we don't think it is a crisis.

It is where you place your resources, what are your values, what are your priorities.

DOD opposes this legislation because the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program has been an important recruitment and retention tool.

He values continuing tax breaks for the rich while imposing devastating cuts to needy children, families on Medicaid and child nutrition assistance, and seniors on Medicare.

I believe it is our responsibility, and a moral responsibility, for us to fund at the Federal level gun violence research.

My colleague Rosa DeLauro's FAMILY Act, which I and many of my colleagues have cosponsored, would build on these successful State experiences to make earned paid leave a reality across the country.

Jay Dickey evolved his thinking as a former Congressman, member of this subcommittee, and sponsor of the Dickey Amendment, to ardently believe that research can make a difference.

We are not going to throw good money after bad for a continued--a failed policy that this administration has engaged in.