Rosa DeLauro

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

This is an Administration that is not shy about spending, a $1,500,000,000,000 tax law, rigged for corporations and the richest Americans.

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

I think that the notion that where we have to go is entitlement reform, misses the big picture.

The budget for the Department of Health and Human Services is continuing to cut critical programs addressing minority health disparities, and I find that very disconcerting.

If we move in the direction of what is currently now in the NAFTA agreement, you are not going to be able to get where you want to go.

We lock in the prices at the current rate, and they are thousands and thousands of dollars.

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

Your testimony is silent about the Administration's plan to link Medicare Part B payments to prices paid in other wealthy countries.

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?

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.

I have nothing else to say. This is absurd, and I hope [off audio].

I strongly believe that this policy is an unconstitutional violation of the freedom of speech of physicians.

Are you increasing permanent bed capacity so that you can move away from unlicensed and expensive influx shelters?

Let's make sure that we are fingerprinting those people who are taking care of our kids.

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

20 percent, as I said, is maybe a wish, but it isn't going to happen.

Let me be crystal clear, Mr. Secretary. Not on my watch.

If senior officials at HHS didn't push back on Homeland Security, despite warnings from ORR career officials, then they were complicit in what was an illegal, immoral family separation.

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

I can't possibly understand how you would want to eliminate preschool development grants.

If a budget is a reflection of our values, it is very clear that President Trump's values--building a wall that he said Mexico would pay for--more than investing in our public health and workforce, this is all very puzzling.

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.

I strongly opposed the President's proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health HIV research portfolio.

That is inaccurate. It flies in the face of decades of Federal law with regard to the Hyde Amendment.